Member Contributer JayWalker Posted February 1, 2009 Member Contributer Share Posted February 1, 2009 Had no idea we had these in N. Texas. Windmill farm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 I work in Big Bend NP in the summers, and on my way there from KY I drive by huge arrays of them in SW Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB-Oz Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Its quite good finding unknown things while off on a ride. Me and some OzVFR mates found a similar windfarm near Crookwell, NSW, when we took a different (and gravelly) road from Bathurst to Canberra. Very weird to come over a hile and see these things stretched out in front of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer ki-speed Posted February 1, 2009 Member Contributer Share Posted February 1, 2009 Those are up north of Munster near the OK border, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer JayWalker Posted February 2, 2009 Author Member Contributer Share Posted February 2, 2009 Those are up north of Munster near the OK border, right? Exactly. I counted 60 of them. I couldn't hear any noise coming from them. Although, I was a good distance away. JW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer VFRedleg Posted February 2, 2009 Member Contributer Share Posted February 2, 2009 Didn't Mike Rowe climb up in/on one of those on Dirty Jobs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer meddle1999 Posted February 2, 2009 Member Contributer Share Posted February 2, 2009 I have a huge windfarm just a few minuites from my house.... Does anyone else get a real goofy feeling when riding by these things on their bike? I dunno how to explaint it .. It's simmilar to Vertigo or something. Maybe I'm just nucking futz... :biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFR4Lee Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 There's a whole mess of those things. Err, a wind farm, outside Palm Springs CA. Pretty strange, the first time you see it. Beats smokestacks burning coal to make electricity I guess. :biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer JayWalker Posted February 2, 2009 Author Member Contributer Share Posted February 2, 2009 Does anyone else get a real goofy feeling when riding by these things on their bike? I thought it was just me. Almost hypnotic, had to force myself to direct my eyes back on the road infront of me. :biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayarearider Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I remember seeing a Sunday Moring report on the TX mills and how they were setting neighboring ranchers against each other for selling out the look of the terrain for some income and that the mills would eventually end up as unhauled scrap. Tough call. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=420...ce=search_video They still dot the Altamount Pass (wind tunnel) in Northern Cal, East Bay since the late 70's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V4 Rosso Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Does anyone else get a real goofy feeling when riding by these things on their bike? Not when riding just past those windmills, but when you are looking straight up from the base of the windmill with the tips of the blades coming at you at incredible speed, that gives a bit of a weird feeling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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