Arcadia Iowa Wind Farm

[NSKruskop]

No videos, I'm afraid. I do have a few photos of the turbines, and one of a more rural area of the Lincoln Hwy south of Glidden Iowa.If you go to Betterphoto.website and type "Nancy Schmitz" in the search bar you'll come up with my photos - sorry, you'll have to search through to find the tubines. I couldn't figure out how to link to them directly. Lots of Iowa landscape there, too. They've recently added some great road signs marking the Lincoln Highway in this area. . Happy trails!

[NSKruskop]

This is a kind of late addition to this thread, I know....

I actually live in Arcadia, Iowa. I LOVE these wind turbines - if you're close to them when they're spinning, they make this amazing whump-whump that sounds like something out of a Star Trek movie. It's awe inspiring and peaceful at the same time. I spend a lot of time traveling the gravel roads of Iowa in search of photo opportunities, and I never get tired of seeing these giants. Thanks for highlighting them! Sorry about the rocks. :)

[suburbanryder]

@NSKruskop I love your rural town.

The rocks were only bad because I was on a cruiser bike.

My Kawasaki would have taken them in stride no problem.

If you ever make any videos of your town send me an email I would love to watch.

[waldenbuilder]

That seems to be a heck of a smooth gravel road. My head bouces like a bobble head doll on the gravel roads around here. I like the idea of wind power myself.

[suburbanryder]

Actually the road was full of round rocks half the size of golf balls. I had to take it very slow.

[aeroliner750]

yep another great idea that our wonderful government has came up with that doesn't work just like the rest of the government

[suburbanryder]

You mean as in wind power doesn't work?

Maybe I am not catching your meaning here.

[aeroliner750]

well that too

[8cuttlefish8]

Very awesome, wind energy FTW!

[suburbanryder]

I am hoping to see some big wind farms west of me soon. We certainly have plenty of wind in this area.

[dsmith308]

I like that you are posting a video that shows the midwest is not as boring as people like to give it credit for. Sure, it's no mountain range but if you get off I-70 and I-80, there is some cool stuff to see. You should see one of those windmill blades on a semi being transported down the highway.  Only then can you get an idea of how big they really are.

[suburbanryder]

I never really think cruising along the back roads and farms as boring either.

I have always loved the midwest.

We still have some awesome small towns around where people are friendly and life is maybe a bit slower than the big cities.

[lauriejennifer]

Very cool to see them so up close. Thanks for risking the gravel for your viewers!

[suburbanryder]

YW

Maybe I could push the envelope and climb one in a video. Nahhh.... too much evidence filming it I guess. Still the thought is kinda fun.

[suburbanryder]

The small ones like this are around 650 kw and the larger ones are around 1.8 mega watts.

[suburbanryder]

That is the closest I have been so far and I still heard nothing.

They say at ten mph winds you have to be closer than a football field to hear anything at all.

[REEDSBUD]

Really cool stuff, bet you hated to ride your bike out on the dirt tho??

[suburbanryder]

Ehhhh.... the bike in a few years will get beat up regardless. The part I really didn't like here was the round rocks on the dirt road. They were about two thirds the size of golf balls.

Made the control in spots very difficult.

[49bluespacefish]

Thats Funny Reed : D

[RC62]

That was pretty neat! It's kinda hard to tell the scale of those things.

[suburbanryder]

Only when I got up close could I tell they were about half the size of the ones in eastern Iowa. Still.... 100 ft isn't exactly small either.

[49bluespacefish]

Those are sleeping Giants, Bye the way I did a little research the ones in San Diego, they are over 20 stories tall and each blade is 136 feet long.If you google wind farm in San Diego youll find an article in the SD-Tribune along with a picture of a guy being dwarfed by their size, Amazing , Good Vid .SuburbanRyder !!

[suburbanryder]

Thank you my friend.

[mooresy]

That looks like a real peaceful place to live, and quite nice with the wind farm too. The gravel road looks kinda slippy though lol (for bikes)

Nice vid man :)

[suburbanryder]

I do think about living in a small town in Iowa.

My sister lives in a small Iowa town and her family too.

It is a much slower paced life than in the Chicago suburbs.

[Fudmottin]

So that's where modern wind comes from. I guess as the population continues to grow, more wind farms will be needed to satisfy our wind needs.

[suburbanryder]

When you consider the ground print compared to like solar panels or generating plants I like the idea of the midwest being as they say, "The Saudi Arabia" of wind power.

[jasongiddensviper478]

Pretty cool I went up to Tennesee during the summer and there were about 20 of them it was neat because you could go right up to the base of them.

[suburbanryder]

Could you give me a location?

I will be going to Nashville again this year to ride with SmyrnaCowboy and Ike. I would like to see them if they are not too far out of my way.

[Whitebuck86]

I love the way the big props sound up close thay are very big we have a few wind farms out in western oklahoma and you can get about 30 yards from the base and thay are amazing.

[suburbanryder]

I agree. I think they are beautiful creations.

When you think of what they are doing to help us and no toxic fumes are spewing out to deal with.