Then, below them, are tiny, itty bitty Oil Pumps, just pumping away.
The footprint of those Windmills is massive, those things are hundreds of feet high. I can't imagine what happens when one of them breaks.
Yet, the oil rig is only slightly bigger than my den I am sitting in now and to the cows there it is no more dangerous than if it was a big bolder.
“The footprint of those Windmills is massive, those things are hundreds of feet high. I can’t imagine what happens when one of them breaks.”
Here in CA down in the Central Valley they were going to put in a solar array power plant. To generate the equivalent energy of a power plant that covered a small number of acres, the solar site would have needed to be several square miles of panels. The other thing they’ve done here down on I-15 just short of the Nevada border near Las Vegas is build the Ivanpah Solar Energy Plant (it’s actually three co-located plants each with acres of mirrors that focus the sun’s energy on an elevated sphere that contains some sort of synthetic heat transfer liquid that circulates into a power generation station. The funny thing is that they have an “auxiliary” fossil-fueled power plant that is supposed to be a “backup” for when Ivanpah isn’t running, and it supplies most of the energy that is produced at the site. Go Google Ivanpah and look at this monstrosity. Driving by it, you wonder if Star Wars is real. Take a look: http://www.brightsourceenergy.com/ivanpah-solar-project#.WVfRGsbMxBw
Hope you had a great time in Denver with your family.