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Mar 11, 2009

Wind Power

March, the month for kite-flying, may also be the best time of year to get an update about wind farms. You may remember that one’s been proposed for this general vicinity. It would straddle the Oklahoma border and occupy part of Benton County. The idea is to have as many as 100 wind turbines producing enough energy to power 40,000 homes. That’s a lot of wind, a lot of turbines, and a lot of renewable energy.

Even with everything that wind power’s got going for it, there’s a problem with the proposal: Nobody’s quite sure yet if there’s enough wind in this part of the country to make the whole project worthwhile. So the company that’s leasing land as possible sites for the turbines is testing the wind, literally. The people at TradeWind are going to sample the air currents for a year, and its tests have only been going on for about six months. (Nobody’s about to commit a lot of money based on partial information.)

But—and this is an encouraging but—the results so far look promising. Ergo, TradeWind is moving beyond leasing the land to doing some environmental studies. We already know that towers and wind turbines can be tough on birds. The company will need to figure out how to minimize that danger, and think about other environmental problems a project this size could pose.

Naturally the entrepreneurs trying to set up the wind farm are enthusiastic about their own prospects. But the farmers whose land is being leased aren’t counting their royalty checks yet. Northwest Arkansas and Northeast Oklahoma aren’t considered prime locations for wind production. Arkansas is ranked only 27th out of the 50 states in potential for wind power. This state trails far behind places like the flatlands of Texas and the plains of Kansas. Out there, the wind never seems to stop blowing. (Driven through Amarillo lately? And just ask little Dorothy and her faithful Toto about the wind in Kansas—it can blow a little girl right into the Kingdom of Oz.)

But the entrepreneurs had their reasons for picking our part of the Wind Belt for this experiment. Stay tuned. And in six months, there may be some good news in the wind.


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I had a thought and wonder if this would work. If you had an 8 inch pipe and it funneled to a 1/2 pipe would it produse more enegry than the average wind mills. I know I am reaching here but it is basically how a jet engine works.

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The people at TradeWind are going to sample the air currents for a year, and its tests have only been going on for about six months.

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Even with everything that wind power’s got going for it, there’s a problem with the proposal: Nobody’s quite sure yet if there’s enough wind in this part of the country to make the whole project worthwhile. So the company that’s leasing land as possible sites for the turbines is testing the wind, literally. The people at TradeWind are going to sample the air currents for a year, and its tests have only been going on for about six months.

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Naturally the entrepreneurs trying to set up the wind farm are enthusiastic about their own prospects. But the farmers whose land is being leased aren’t counting their royalty checks yet. Northwest Arkansas and Northeast Oklahoma aren’t considered prime locations for wind production.

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TradeWind is moving beyond leasing the land to doing some environmental studies. We already know that towers and wind turbines can be tough on birds. The company will need to figure out how to minimize that danger, and think about other environmental problems a project this size could pose.

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I think,Nobody’s quite sure yet if there’s enough wind in this part of the country to make the whole project worthwhile. So the company that’s leasing land as possible sites for the turbines is testing the wind, literally. The people at TradeWind are going to sample the air currents for a year, and its tests have only been going on for about six months.

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Wind power has always been a good source of energy to the world. I think this power should be used to the maximum extend so that the nature doesn’t have to face problems created by humans.

Posted by seo on 09/25  at  02:29 AM

Even with everything that wind power’s got going for it, there’s a problem with the proposal: Nobody’s quite sure yet if there’s enough wind in this part of the country to make the whole project worthwhile…

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one thing is for sure , electric and wind power are going to be very bug business going forward. in a recent trip to main land europe i was really amazed at the amount of wind turbines when compared to what we have in the u.k. i really hope the british government sorts this issue out.

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So the company that’s leasing land as possible sites for the turbines is testing the wind, literally. The people at TradeWind are going to sample the air currents for a year, and its tests have only been going on for about six months.

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How much scalable this technology is ?
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I could never figure out why we haven’t used more wind power in the past. Doesn’t is seem like it’s one of the best forms of green, renewable energy available?

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