Sorry 'bout the long lapse. . .
but I'm not sure anyone's reading this anyhow. Still no comments.
One problem I'm having is remembering enough. Loretta's at a meeting. When she's here we'll be able to work with each other to remember all the other stuff.
One thing I didn't write about yet stands out. Here it comes:
While we headed westbound on I-40, we saw the most unexpected sight of the whole trip. Windmills! Big, modern ones with three slender blades apiece. Soon the whole horizon south of I-40 filled with them, as well as parts of the northern horizon. I hadn't really noticed the land rising west of Oklahoma City. The windmills stood on high ground that got steady wind all the time we watched them. Guessing the size of those windmills, I suddenly realized that the tips of those blades had to be moving at a great speed, generating a lot of electricity. I'm not expert enough in wind power to make a guess of how much power they produced, but the sight cheered me greatly. I had not even been aware that windmill farms existed in the US outside of California.
We saw more windmills on our trip, both the old-fashioned ones used on farms for stock tank water pumps and the modern, graceful type that generate power. We even saw one windmill in a West Texas rest area with explanations and photographs that gave a background on the State of Texas's efforts to study wind power. But that big windmill farm at Weatherford, Oklahoma made the deepest impression.
One problem I'm having is remembering enough. Loretta's at a meeting. When she's here we'll be able to work with each other to remember all the other stuff.
One thing I didn't write about yet stands out. Here it comes:
While we headed westbound on I-40, we saw the most unexpected sight of the whole trip. Windmills! Big, modern ones with three slender blades apiece. Soon the whole horizon south of I-40 filled with them, as well as parts of the northern horizon. I hadn't really noticed the land rising west of Oklahoma City. The windmills stood on high ground that got steady wind all the time we watched them. Guessing the size of those windmills, I suddenly realized that the tips of those blades had to be moving at a great speed, generating a lot of electricity. I'm not expert enough in wind power to make a guess of how much power they produced, but the sight cheered me greatly. I had not even been aware that windmill farms existed in the US outside of California.
We saw more windmills on our trip, both the old-fashioned ones used on farms for stock tank water pumps and the modern, graceful type that generate power. We even saw one windmill in a West Texas rest area with explanations and photographs that gave a background on the State of Texas's efforts to study wind power. But that big windmill farm at Weatherford, Oklahoma made the deepest impression.
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