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This wind farm is just 30 miles north of here. It's AWESOME to see...these windmills are freakin' HUGE! My mind spins when I think of the engineering that went into these "Mighty Monsters!"

http://www.wmicentral.com/site/news.cfm ... 5965&rfi=6


OH....BTW, "HI!" Been busy as *you know what*...with the economy being in the commode, you can ONLY imagine how the crime rate has climbed! Nuff said fer now....LATERZ!

Holy Windmills! those are huge!

amazing project.
thanks for sharing. Even tho u r so busy
good to see you around tho

-justin-

Where I used to work on the Loop 610 in Houston we could look out the windows and see the individual components for those types of windmills being trucked to sites all over the nation from the Port of Houston. You are right, they are HUGE and require special trucks, escorts and special routes to get to their destinations. In a city like Houston, one of those things, or several, passing by can really mess up traffic for a while. I look at it as part of the price for positive progress in the energy community.

*vb waves at Dennis* Hey Dennis did you get a chance to got to the front porch? Miss Mary opened it this week.

I've seen one of the blades on a flat bed go by...we were like "What was that?" then I remembered seeing a wind farm from one of the ranges during Basic at Fort Sill (was family day, the day before graduation from basic).

How much power do one of them big boys produce?....MGC

Three MegaWatts are the biggest ones that GE makes.

Hi Dennis. You stay safe now, ya hear!

We pass by a series of those giants on our way to and from San Diego in the east county mountains there. We are always amazed at just how huge they are! And of course the mother load of wind farms lies west of Palm Springs and just south of Big Bear where literally hundreds of those giants stand and face the force of nature.

You know Dennis --- very good exercise for the eyeballs watching those blades go round and round. How ya been buddy?

There's a small wind farm just outside of Atlantic City but along the coast. It's really windy around that area, and I love watching them as I drive the Atlantic City Expressway to work every morning.

I've always wondered, since one of the cases against wind farms seems to be that they're "ugly", why not retrofit existing high-voltage transmission lines to mount wind turbines atop those?

somethingfunny wrote:I've always wondered, since one of the cases against wind farms seems to be that they're "ugly", why not retrofit existing high-voltage transmission lines to mount wind turbines atop those?

Mainly because the cost would be prohibitive, imo. The structural dynamics are much different for turning turbine blades than for hanging wires. My guess is it would be cheaper to build from the ground up than to retrofit.

Awe inspiring indeed !