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Tehachapi Wind Turbines – Mojave Desert

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:00:55 +0000

There is quite a few dozen around the Mojave Desert near Tehachapi pass. Remember the Wind Rush in the 70’s and 80’s. There are over 5000 wind turbines in the area, many of them don’t turn at all!

Wild Wind Turbine Platoon – Nothern Europe

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:05:34 +0000

Wild wind Turbine Platoon

I am thrilled at finding other people in the world wanting to make a change. I was in a hilly area in nothern europe and saw a small wind farm that a local farmer started. He has about 30 windmills up and place on the highest part of the ridges of his property. I was about ten miles away and could see them. They were an awesome sight. I was told that whatever he does not use up the local utility company has to buy back from him at the going rate. I would love to see something like that in every area which has sufficiant wind available in every part of the world

Classic Dutch Style Windmills In Beautiful Surrounding

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:08:54 +0000

The first fact people recall about The Netherlands as a country is of course its ‘Windmills’. Windmills have been built in The Netherlands for many centuries. In the beginning, the mills were developed for corn milling, land drainage, saw milling and for many other industrial purposes. Dutch wind mills are actually in many ways quite primitive. Only using canvas sails and turned to the direction from where the wind was coming from by hand. Quite different to the automated mechanisms that can also be seen below which were developed for English windmills which included fantails and shuttered sails. There are still a very pleasing number of functioning remaining windmills in the Netherlands and even a set of ‘Dutch Style’ Windmills in the US to be seen in the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA. The number of operating mills in The Netherlands is currently about 1200 and rising, in that the Dutch only count complete workable mills, and in the past years, many extensive rebuilds have occurred to add to this number. Aren’t they just beautiful?

Classic Dutch Windmills

“A breeze came wandering from the sky, light as the whispers of a dream; He put the overhanging grasses by, and softly stooped to kiss the stream, The pretty stream, the flattered stream, The shy, yet un-reluctant stream of wind”
William Cullen Bryant