{"id":4391,"date":"2009-07-31T22:51:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T03:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=4391"},"modified":"2009-07-31T22:51:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T03:51:44","slug":"wind-power-from-iowa-to-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=4391","title":{"rendered":"Wind power from Iowa to Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past two days, we have seen a great number of wind turbines. In Iowa, the wind turbines were often in fields of corn or soybeans:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/windturbineiowa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/windturbineiowa.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/windturbineiowa.jpg 306w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/windturbineiowa-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Near Walnut, Iowa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These wind turbines were far from the highway, and barely visible across the Great Plains:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/windturbinesnebraska.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/windturbinesnebraska.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/windturbinesnebraska.jpg 306w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/windturbinesnebraska-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Somewhere along I-80, Nebraska<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Wyoming, we saw several extensive fields of wind turbines, like this one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/windturbineswyoming.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/windturbineswyoming.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/windturbineswyoming.jpg 306w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/windturbineswyoming-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Between Laramie and Rawlins, Wyoming<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Wyoming, we saw a wind turbine being erected: a slim white tower, and a crane nearby waiting to place the blades and hub on top of the tower. In another place, we saw wind turbines gracefully turning in the distance, while close to the road an oil derrick clumsily bumped up and down, up and down: two different sources of energy side by side.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, these wind turbines were somewhere near the Wyoming &#8211; Utah border:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/windturbinesutah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/windturbinesutah.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/windturbinesutah.jpg 306w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/windturbinesutah-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We arrived in Salt Lake City at about 7:30 this evening, and as we were pulling in to the motel parking lot, Carol said that it looked there are more wind turbines in the Great Plains now than in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past two days, we have seen a great number of wind turbines. In Iowa, the wind turbines were often in fields of corn or soybeans: Near Walnut, Iowa These wind turbines were far from the highway, and barely visible across the Great Plains: Somewhere along I-80, Nebraska In Wyoming, we saw several extensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sauntering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4421,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions\/4421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}