The Altamont Pass area in California is particularly well situated for wind generation, with isolated hills and proximity to the Pacific Intertie system, a major power distribution trunk for the west coast.
This was captured with a DSLR and 400mm lens. The main challenge was that the camera kept rebooting from the powerful induced fields from the generators and power lines.
These giant wind farms, tucked away in the countryside and visible to most of us only in fleeting glances from interstate highways, are perhaps the closest objects our generation has to the emerging skyscrapers of a hundred years earlier. Their scale is unreal, and they conquer the landscape in ways we can't really comprehend. In a sense, they're self-abstracting sculptures of themselves.
@mattblaze We got to get up close with some in Washington State a few summers ago. Deeply epic engineering; should end the “we don’t build anything anymore” discussions and yet they don’t.
@luis_in_brief@mattblaze I think that's largely because a vast majority of "we don't build anything anymore" arguers are against any policy that would result in building anything.
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