Wind Farm

This is the wind farm being built outside Bloomington, Illinois. When it is completed it will be the largest wind farm in the world. I don't think the video with my dopey commentary really captures how extraordinary this is up close.

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• windmill
• wind
• farm
• energy

[MatthewFish]

Wind farms are cool.

[wayko42]

I THANK GOD FOR WINDMILLS

[erik374]

nice

[greenfrog140]

what does a windfarm do?

[gamepro103]

hey buddy just to tell you they started making silent eletric windmils; why i live right next to about 3.

[HappinessAndMe]

I Love Windmills.

And Wind Power.

Thank goodness.

(I agree with wayko42)

[mytube8488]

The highest wind class in Illinois is class 4- 15.7-16.8 mph at 50 meters high. The power curve for a common Suzlon 2MW -2000 kilowatt- wind turbine shows an output of only about 500 kilowatts at that wind speed. Far below the 2000 kilowatts for which it is rated and promoted. There are projects being built in class 2-3 wind. Chosing poor locations costs us all tax money and energy. Info is from the Illinois wind resource map and the Suzlon web site.

[pm0501]

Who told you this? Rosie O'Donnell or the Dixie Chicks?

[mytube8488]

Commercial wind power plants suck. They destroy peoples investments in their homes and property and they ruin peoples quality of life who have to live near them.They put out 106dbs of noise into the country side and produce very little and sometimes no energy. They are a scam to get your tax money and make politicians look "green"