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| | | From: STAR (Original Message) | Sent: 10/12/2008 9:42 PM |
If you have great eyesight... look at the ledges over there on Witham Mountain... and then... look straight up! On the rim... see a needlely little tiny spire sticking up into the sky? Take your time. It's there. That's a wind speed test tower; one of six, most that we can see from our North facing windows... if wind speeds up there are great enough, it will be replaced with a wind turbine; roughly twice as tall. Our little Plantation will host a wind farm!! I love going green as a community and I love that our taxes will be nill if this project goes in... lol !! |
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oh I see it just fine mz starry! that is sooo coool! Joey says they are doing that here too...I see all of the parts and pieces rolling down the hiway! The pieces are HUGE! bigger than a house for just one piece! |
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I still get the urge to hike up there! mw |
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| | | From: STAR | Sent: 10/12/2008 10:52 PM |
We did that today.... beautiful forenoon! After visiting Kasey & her 14 sled dogs, we drove half way up, then hiked a good bit... could see our place from up there... this is such good country... how I love having inherited it. |
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| | | From: STAR | Sent: 10/12/2008 10:53 PM |
roflmao... oh! BTW, could you see the wind speed test spire? |
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I noticed it even before I read your text Starry! lol .... anyway its pretty cool to have them big old mills going round n round nearby. When I was a driver I had the oppertunity to deliver some parts for em in nearby evanston wy. and YES they are HUGE.... the blades alone are 100 ft. long! Made for a very interesting drive to get em up to the top of the hill ...... scary at times, but worth it! |
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oh yes, starry! sticks out like a sore thumb! lol mw |
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we have a few wind turbines round here bout a dozen or so cause of the esarpment being so high but further west and north of here there are bout 150 and over turbines its how the small little towns get there hydro |
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We have several "wind farms" down here. One is about 30 miles from here on the way to Palm Springs. Another, and much larger, is north of here towards Bakersfield. They are awesome! And I love knowing that something so simple as "wind" is providing so much electricity. There is also a solar farm in the desert on the way to Las Vegas. Those, combined with hydro power are, hopefully, one of our roads to independence from fossil fuels. |
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oh I know that one, jb! It is huge! I used to stop on the way to salton sea, right there, to just watch them! Those and oil pumps have always blown me away! Im amazed at how really big they are! mw |
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that does look like a nice place to hike. is there any lakes near by? |
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| | | From: STAR | Sent: 10/14/2008 10:26 PM |
CB, back when you planned your high and hot (after just leaving AK!) Oregon whatever hike, I tried to induce you here to our trails, where there were mountains, melting snow drifts ( 6' deep!) and a visit with me.... could I interest you? Nooooooooooooo... lol |
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