Indiana Wind Farm
Jun. 1st, 2015 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogPosi and I both love looking at wind farms. Here's a view in the midst of the giant Fowler Ridge Wind Farm in northern Indiana. The farm consists of about 355 wind turbines generating around 600MW. I have more from this farm to post.
I wonder all the time, as I drive through wind farms, what the pioneer settlers of the land would have thought if they knew that, someday, there would be these monstrous pylons six or eight times the height of their houses, topped with immense fan blades, all spinning away as far as the eye can see. Such a strange concept to juxtapose with the old, abandoned farm buildings here and there, probably remaining from property consolidation due to automation and technological development. Those buildings make me nostalgic, inspiring thoughts of forgotten history and experiences in the shadow of these turbines.
I wonder all the time, as I drive through wind farms, what the pioneer settlers of the land would have thought if they knew that, someday, there would be these monstrous pylons six or eight times the height of their houses, topped with immense fan blades, all spinning away as far as the eye can see. Such a strange concept to juxtapose with the old, abandoned farm buildings here and there, probably remaining from property consolidation due to automation and technological development. Those buildings make me nostalgic, inspiring thoughts of forgotten history and experiences in the shadow of these turbines.
