One of the blogs I read is called The Wind Blog. It's written by Glen Estill, who (among other things) runs a wind farm in Ontario. We're talking megawatts of electricity generated by wind turbines*! He had a great post the other day about a local school district holding a conference all about environmental awareness, and also about potential careers in green fields. It sounded totally awesome, and like something I would have loved in high school.
* When we were driving across NY state last month, we stopped at a little picnic area just in time to see a single GIANT wind turbine blade go by us on a semi truck. It was so big that it was really hard to comprehend what exactly we were looking at, and how big its tower would be. It was like looking at Megatron's head, or the huge toes of those Argonath statues in Lord of the Rings. (Argonaths! You know, those big statues of the old kings of Gondor along the River Anduin. Right? Right.)
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nowpicnic
December 2, 2007 8:04 AM
Hey! I've seen those turbine blades go by on trucks, too, and they are really amazing. One day spoons and I were driving somewhere and I think we saw 3 or 4 go by, so each time we could look again and think, "wow. really. wow."