Sunday Sight Seeing Trip

[Mrs. Wallnut]

I wanted to share these pictures with you all. On Sunday our daughter and myself along with her Girl Scout Trip went to the Wild Horse Wind Farm to see the things and what it takes to move them around and the process of how they went up. It was a fun trip and even though they have been there a couple of years and we can see them from our house it is amazing at how big they were when you got closer to them. In the picture of all the girls sitting on the windmill the one in the middle with dark hair is our daughter Rebecca. Also in there are some pictures of the construction of the visitor center. There are no nails in the beams all of them are wooden pins. I got some pictures of that also for everyone to enjoy.

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[DUD]

Thanks Melissa those are great pictures, Some of the blades are made in Little Rock, and

they are massive. Bill

[jackellis]

There's an off-shore wind turbine proposed for the UK that will have turbine blades longer than Big Ben is tall!

They're popping up everywhere now.

[crokett]

Those turbines are massive. Funny thing - one of my tickets at work last week was for a company that is involved in them, I don't recall exactly how. Anyhoo, the guy I was on the phone with got to go out to a windfarm. He said even though he drives by it 3 or 4 times a week he never understood the actual size until he climbed to the top of one.

[iceman61]

Thanks Melissa those are great pictures, Some of the blades are made in Little Rock, and

they are massive. Bill

I see those blades coming through here all the time. One blade per truck, extra long trailer, & they are huge.

[jziegler]

I saw windfarms all over the place driving around Germany. Out here in the Northeast, you really don't see any at all, although there are a few offshore windfarms proposed right now. It looks like the one off the Delaware coast will be built. NJ is a little less sure. I've never seen one up close though. Good to see them in use in the US. I bet that everyone had a good time on the trip.

Jim

[leehljp]

You took some good pictures of some fine woodwork. Reminds me of a time when I helped a Japanese friend lead a group of American woodworkers on a tour of Kyoto castles, temples and shrines. Most people admire the looks as it pertained to history, but these guys would go up and feel the woodwork, look under tables, gables, and what ever to see the wood work and joinery.

[Mrs. Wallnut]

Here is a picture of one of the blades that was on display, ( it is in 2 pictures because I couldn't fit it all into one picture with out getting pretty far away)



and the other end:

[Black wallnut]

You took some good pictures of some fine woodwork. Reminds me of a time when I helped a Japanese friend lead a group of American woodworkers on a tour of Kyoto castles, temples and shrines. Most people admire the looks as it pertained to history, but these guys would go up and feel the woodwork, look under tables, gables, and what ever to see the wood work and joinery.

She makes me so proud! She called me from there and mentioned the stunning woodwork and construction details. Wind power has for a long time been tried in our area. Back in the late 70's Stuart Anderson, of the "Stuart Anderson's Balck Angus" restauarnt chain had a wind turbine on his ranch. He has long since sold out both the restuarant chain and his ranch, and the wind machine has been gone for a few years. Our valley is known for being windy by those in our state and neighboring states. Over half the days each year we have winds >25mph. On many calm days where there is no noticable wind the turbines are working. It is so windy here that there used to be a wind guage outside of our town's Safeway store that was a legnth of 3/8" chain with a steel ball at the end.

Wind power is a good fit and more projects are in the planning stages.

[Mrs. Wallnut]

She makes me so proud! She called me from there and mentioned the stunning woodwork and construction details.

It is so windy here that there used to be a wind guage outside of our town's Safeway store that was a legnth of 3/8" chain with a steel ball at the end.

Wind power is a good fit and more projects are in the planning stages.

Well that was something that I thought he would like to have pictures of. And the Safeway store still has the wind gauge that Mark is referring to. There are three lines on this thing. One is straight down and says, "not windy", there is one 90 degrees to this that says "gusty", and when the chain gets there it is only gusty to us but to any other person it is blowing like H@#$. I may have to check and see if that is still hanging on the building and get a shot of it for you all.

[cwithboat]

Wind at Ellensburg
http://www.iwindsurf.com/windandwher...1&timeoffset=0

Ellensburg is near the middle of the map, run your cursor over it