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If you've driven across the deserts in the West recently, you can't get away from seeing wind turbines in your scenery. I've grown used to them and I know that they are a cleaner way to produce power. One of these turbines in less than an hour can produce enough electricity for an average home for a month. In a month it will produce enough power for over 900 homes.
This picture was taken just outside of Ocotillo on the way to the Anza Borrego State Park. Ocotillo are one of my favorite desert plants. My first experiences of them were in the Arizona desert and they looked like dried out sticks coming out of the ground. I remember my dad telling me that they have to have water in the spring to get leaves and flower. One year it rained and I got to see green leaves and beautiful flowers coming out of the top these sticks. I was hooked.
The Ocotillo were beautiful this year with all the rain this spring. Green leaves and flowers were everywhere on this trip. When we came through here, we both thought the flowers and the turbines would make for an interesting photo opportunity. Bringing the beauty of the desert with the modern technology.
Here is Johnny having fun and a run, while we were looking at the wind turbines, in Hampton, NSW Australia. I was going through my Archives and find this photo.It was taken back in 2014.
Shot just southeast of Idaho Falls in June. The sun angle and the clouds made this an interesting place to investigate late in the day.
Another drive by shooting of the wind turbines near Palm Springs CA.
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The Darrieus wind turbine is a type of vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) used to generate electricity from wind energy. The turbine consists of a number of curved aerofoil blades mounted on a rotating shaft or framework. The curvature of the blades allows the blade to be stressed only in tension at high rotating speeds. There are several closely related wind turbines that use straight blades. This design of the turbine was patented by Georges Jean Marie Darrieus, a French aeronautical engineer; filing for the patent was October 1, 1926. There are major difficulties in protecting the Darrieus turbine from extreme wind conditions and in making it self-starting.
More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrieus_wind_turbine
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The Palouse Wind project consisting of 58 Vestas V-100-1.8 MW wind turbines for a total of 104.4 MW.
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After a long day of shooting in south central Alberta, I stopped at the wind farm near Trochu, Alberta, for a final shot.
At a pullout along I35 in the Arbuckle Mountains of Oklahoma, one old wind powered water well pump and one modern wind turbine. The old one is about 30 feet (~10m) tall, the new one stands at least 3 times that (I couldn't get close enough to really estimate), but is sitting below the ridge where the old one sits.
Wind turbines seen from the Steptoe Butte State Park lookout. One of the largest wind farms in the country. Seen in the Palouse area of Eastern Washington state, USA.
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Harness The Wind...
Long country drives are my absolute favorite, especially when Karen is behind the wheel. I get to be the observer, gazing out the passenger-side window, just like a dog on a Sunday drive. The world rushes by in a blur of color. All along the way as far as the eye can see there are hundreds of tall wind turbines standing like sentinels with arms outstretched catching the wind that whips across the flat landscape.
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"Switch off the mind and let the heart decide
Who you were meant to be
Windpower
Flick to remote and let the body glide
There is no enemy
Windpower
Etch out a future of your own design
Well tailored to your needs
Yeah,
Windpower
Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive
Of a continent, a continent, a continent, a continent, a
Windpower
There is no enemy"
-Thomas Morgan Dolby
Wind Turbine at Horningtops,near Liskeard, Cornwall , England.
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