[BC] wind farms

[Gary Glaenzer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "KKTY" <kkty at netcommander.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 10:37 PM
Subject: [BC] wind farms


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>
> Great pics of the Foote Creek wind project at Arlington. Gotta love
> GoogleMaps. Original project was rated to produce 85 megawatts of power,
> enough for about 27 thousand homes. They make power with winds from 8-65
> mph... then shut down when winds gust higher... measured to 125 mph up on
> this high mountain ridge. $62 million to build the first phase, with 69
> turbines, in 1999. Now 133 turbines online. Google "wyoming wind farm" for
> more info. You didn't think I actually knew all of that off the top of my
> pointy head, did you?
>

We approached it from the northeast last time, coming home from the Big Horn
Basin via Shoshoni, Casper, the Shirley Basin, Medicine Bow, and Rock River.

We stopped on the west side of Laramie for gas, and the wind was at about 50
mph out of the west.................from Laramie to North Platte, NE we got
38 mpg out of the old 91 Dynasty.

There are isolated turbines all along I-80 in western Nebraska, too.