SOUTH FORK OF the fabulous Snake River in Idaho not far from the Wyoming line, and just west of Palisades dam and Conan bridge.
Driving from Green River, Utah up through Price then onto I-15 near Provo, behemoth wind turbines greeted drivers as we summited the mountain pass. A common scene of the New West.
As a frequent visitor myself, I find it is fun to see how often they are turning, and how many are down for maintenance. Probably the best place to do this is the Coachella Valley in California. Hundreds of units turning out power, sometimes, at 7-10X the next highest cost power. But it is Green, so that must be OK.
Yes, the efficiency is not particularly good nor the First and Second Laws of Thermo taken into account often. But it's an idea that seems to be catching on. And here above there are chinook winds blowing through this high mountain pass making it more feasible.
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Stewarding Timber Lands, Daylighting and Building Roads
Fall in Tennessee
Boys, Waterfall, Barrel of Monkeys. Fun
Jackson, Conservative Cat Patriot
Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down
National Anthem
AT in VA
My Favorite Hometown Buddies
Leaves Everywhere
Journeys To Significance---On the Life of Paul
Click Pic
The Philantropists: William Wilberforce
@ Tim Challies
Most Destructive Sin In Each Life
"The sin that is most destructive in our life right now is the one we are most defensive about."
---Tim Keller
Grace Sunday
G-Boy and Girly-G Baptized In Manhattan---God Bless Them and Their Parents!
Above Jackson Hole
On the Thames
Girly-G Looks For the Queeny-B!
At the AT Headquarters
At Harper's Ferry WV (click pic)
In A Central Park State of Mind
Last Stanzas of America the Beautiful
O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern, impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Till all success be nobleness, And every gain divine!
Visit to Scotland
G-Boy Tractors Around Scotland With His Late Great-Grandpapa, Fred
6 comments:
>>A common scene of the New West.
As a frequent visitor myself, I find it is fun to see how often they are turning, and how many are down for maintenance. Probably the best place to do this is the Coachella Valley in California. Hundreds of units turning out power, sometimes, at 7-10X the next highest cost power. But it is Green, so that must be OK.
Yes, the efficiency is not particularly good nor the First and Second Laws of Thermo taken into account often. But it's an idea that seems to be catching on. And here above there are chinook winds blowing through this high mountain pass making it more feasible.
T. Boone Pickens has a few hundred of these you could probably buy really cheaply. ;)
Best from hot, sticky TN.
Treg
Ha..I bet he does.
Thanks, Treg. Must say it is unseasonably cool out here at the moment.
I am really enjoying your posts on Palin and McNair, and these photos of your trip west are wonderful.
Thanks, Bob. Appreciate your feedback, always.
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