Comments on: Gone to the Wind[mills]

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:50:21 +0000

@Dave
It gets worse. I heard recently that China has developed state-of-the-art wind generating technology. So soon we’ll likely be buying from China.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:18:11 +0000

Why are we buying these things from Denmark…cant we make them here in the US? The administration talks about creating green jobs (I though that meant in the US) but as usual it’s just more political talk.

By: Scott from GA

Scott from GA — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:03:28 +0000

Thanks for your informative site. My wife and I saw a lot of these windmill blades on semi trucks, heading west on I-40 near Nashville, TN. I thought that’s what they were, but they were much longer than I expected. We had seen some of these windmills while on an earlier vacation out west, but seeing one blade on the trailer of a truck was fascinating. Of course, these were over-size trailers. The first time we saw the blades in July ’08, there was only one per trailer. Several weeks later in August ’08, we made the same trip on I-40 and then they had two blades per trailer. I suppose there is either a lot of windmill construction, or some serious blade replacement going on.

By: StephenR

StephenR — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:24:26 +0000

There's a YouTube video here of people base jumping off wind turbines like these. Walking right out onto the blades (stopped, of course) hundreds of feet in the air.