it's always a good little run...

 

Great pics! I work for the company that makes/supplies some of the wiring/cables for these, and I can tell you these things are HUGE when seen up close!

 

You see a lot of the parts on trucks here on I 40 going through Tennessee..They are huge..

 

Great Pics. We have some winds farms along I 57 they don't look that big until you get up to them.

 

i love wind farms

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Last summer we rode through the Altamont pass windfarm in N. CA. It is the largest windfarm in the world (as far as number) with over 4,000 of them scattered across the hills. Here is a pic of me on that weekend. The pic was not originally taken to show off the turbines but they are in the background.

 

I used to work for Vestas (the company name printed on the side of those turbines) as a technician. Got a few pics to share myself, although they don't include my bike. I traveled around the country for a few years working on them:

Here's one taken from the top of a turbine just outside Palm Springs, CA. Seriously the windiest place I've been in my life:


Awesome sunrise in Dodge Center, MN:


Doing a gearbox pick in Carnegie, OK:


About to do a gearbox pick in Fowler, IN:


From a man basket while doing a main rotor bearing change just outside Bloomington, IL:


Standing tall on top of one in Bloomington, IL:

 

Makes the landscape look like crap but at least they produce jobs.

 

Them pictures make stuff look smalll....Like being on top of the Blue Ridge Parkway looking down....

 

Last I checked, Tehachapi, CA was the largest, with around 7,000 of them. Palm Springs, CA has about 5,000. I don't mean to sound like a d*ck by correcting you, so I'm sorry if I do. I love seeing those little 50 and 80 foot lattice tower turbines that are spinning a mile a minute. They barely produce any power in terms of quantity by today's standards, but California was the first place in the world to really start embracing wind energy, and paved the way for the stuff you see today. Its so cool to ride through therand see them all. Even after working on them for a few years, I still can't help but stare at them in awe when I see them.