Tehachapi wind farm | 28 March 2009

Video of the wind turbines in and around Tehachapi Pass in Kern County, California. The beginning scenes were shot along California Highway 58. The remainder of the footage was captured along a rural road in the Horned Toad Hills and southward.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• wind
• turbines
• Tehachapi
• Kern
• County
• California
• Highway
• 58
• Horned
• Toad
• Hills

[888zzz]

The windmills are mechanical and contrast with the countryside but dont degrade the natural beauty. They look like an environmental art project like something Christo would have done. We need more of them and trains instead of trucks.

[bapyou]

With respect to the train in this video, my encounter with it was somewhat serendipitous. I included it for the contrast: Contrast between an older, noisy technology (the train) and the near-silence of the whirling wind turbines which immediately follows the train footage.

[888zzz]

The energy industry writes our energy policy from what I understand, so there is little funding for renewable energy because doing so would put the oil, coal, gas, etc. industries out of business. Ours is a business system, so everything makes perfect business sense. Another excellent video. Have you ever considered making videos professionally either as art or for instruction besides Youtube?

[bapyou]

Hello 888zzz. Thank you for the comments. I agree with you when you write that wind turbines look "like something Christo would have done." I've thought the same thing for years.

As far as energy policy and the energy industry, one of the best analyses of our energy woes that I've come across recently is a talk by Australian physicist (and MacArthur fellow) Saul Griffith posted to the FORAtv website. Just google 'Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated'. It should be the second link.

[bapyou]

"Have you ever considered making videos professionally either as art or for instruction besides Youtube?"

Not professionally, no. I did, initially, establish my YouTube account in order to upload videos that might be instructive to my students. My channel is far from what I wanted it to be. Also, my income is modest and, at present I couldn't afford a better camera. My whole video-making philosophy is this: walk/drive around with my camera on a tripod and shoot anything that is interesting.

[ALBIONTYKE]

Apparently Nathan Rothschild & his side kick Rockefeller love em!

[bratwurstle]

@888zzz Agreed why should there be trucks clogging highways traveling long hauls. Leave the long distance moving to trains. So much more efficient!

[Alexknobsob]

Round and round.

You got me going, even Disney saw circles in stream cycles.

God, get me off this roundabout.

[ubuibiok]

★★★★★