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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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Posted by wind power design on 09/18  at  09:53 PM

Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy, such as electricity, using wind turbines

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Posted by Residential Wind Power on 12/08  at  12:26 AM

I’m interested to see how this experiment works out.  I don’t think wind power is the full answer to our energy needs, but it is a good start.  When I see private industry investing in these wind farms, it holds more credibility with me and appears to be a viable alternative energy.

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Posted by forex software on 02/16  at  12:11 AM

I see private industry investing in these wind farms, it holds more credibility with me and appears to be a viable alternative energy.

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