I'm getting a guided tour today

[greenman3610]

of our first big wind farm here in Michigan.
This state has been dragging its feet, but the
resource here is huge, especially offshore in the lakes -
comparable to the great plains.
Once farmers get a load of these babies, and see their
neighbors getting big royalty checks, things will
start to pop in a hurry.

http://www.mlive.com/mobile/articles/paper3.ssf?/base/news-10/118727733716490.xml&coll=4
'This is good for MY economy,'' said Bob Geiger of Caro, an iron worker helping assemble steel tower bases for each of the 32 turbines.

''I'd like to be the local land owner who leases (wind-farm operators) the land by each tower and leases out the land for the service roads to the towers,'' Rick Lorenzo said.

Crane operator Greg ''Digger'' Curtis of Pigeon in Huron County said the wind-farm project has brought him not only paychecks, but popularity.

"My neighbors are all talking to me about it. They're just curious about what's going on," said Curtis, a member of Operating Engineers Local 324.

Each completed turbine features a trio of 131-foot fiberglass blades. But onlookers seem plenty curious, too, about the 295-foot Manitowoc crane that hoists the blades and attached hub - weighing a total of 95,000 pounds - in place on each turbine.

[unhappycamper]

1. Please post pics after your visit. n/t

[corbett]

4. I Second That Request!

Pix, please!

[soothsayer]

2. I like the ones in Atlantic City (NJ); they're like big silent pinwheels.

Cool!

[seemunkee]

3. Got fairly close to the turbines in WV

We just sat in the car and listened to the Whoosh of the blades. It was hypnotic.