Wind Farm Slaughter

[strangercreek]

I don't really want to get into this argument but here is something interesting. I have passed this town many times and did some reading about it. It is supposedly the only town in the US with 100% wind energy capability, albeit a small place. Its up on I29 maybe halfway between Kansas City and Omaha....lots of turbines places around the bluffs. you can see 4-5 of them from the highway, more if you drive back in the town.

Just an observation....nothing more, and I like the areas along the river plain between KC and Omaha

http://www.rpmo.com/

[jeb]

Odd way to state it, that they are "capable of". Obviously, it means they are not 100% wind powered or they wouldn't have used that term. I'd guess they use that language as a way to put themselves on the map for something. And that's smart of the civic leaders of that small town to do, if that's the case. Whatever attracts more people and more business.

[bfishn]

I don't really want to get into this argument but here is something interesting. I have passed this town many times and did some reading about it. It is supposedly the only town in the US with 100% wind energy capability, albeit a small place. Its up on I29 maybe halfway between Kansas City and Omaha....lots of turbines places around the bluffs. you can see 4-5 of them from the highway, more if you drive back in the town.

Just an observation....nothing more, and I like the areas along the river plain between KC and Omaha

http://www.rpmo.com/

Interesting! Thanks!

Wind power in a landscape formed by wind. Used to date a gal from that area in my younger days. The loess hills there are a product of soils deposited by the tailout/melt of ice age glaciers, the fine sediments of which ended up on the Mo River bottom. As the soils dried, wind from cold air masses falling from the great plains carried the finest particles into dunes bordering the river bottom, some nearing 200 feet deep.

On the flip side (and relevant to the thread), the same falling air masses that created the hills are taken advantage of by thousands of eagles and hawks in their migration route. Winds hitting the dirt bluffs create major updrafts that the birds use to advantage on their journey. I've seen what appeared to be giant cones or funnels of eagles and hawks riding the updrafts, starting low in tight circles that widen as they rise for hundreds of feet. Birds peeled off the top of the funnel heading south again. One of the coolest things I've ever seen.

[Quillback]

I always wondered how those bluffs were formed, thanks for the info.