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« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2011, 03:06:04 PM » |
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Wow a fellow Lafayette member! Little windy up that way today ay? Lol. Cool pics! We should meet up for a ride sometime! I know all of the "fun" roads around L-town.  |
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« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2011, 03:11:17 PM » |
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I find large wind farms somewhat hypnotic.
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« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2011, 03:32:53 PM » |
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They are something to see, saw some around Scranton, Pa. Never knew the wind turbines would affect your riding that much.  |
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« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2011, 03:47:07 PM » |
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That's cool...I am going to inherit (no time soon hopefully) a large farm in Alexandria. I've considered contracting with someone who wants to put windmills out...it's not like they ruin the land for farming.
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« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2011, 04:03:35 PM » |
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Yes go for it, they will keep the birds off the crops. And put some cell phone towers on top!
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« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2011, 06:04:47 PM » |
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Cool idea for a ride. Those blades really bend. In my Lafayette, there are no wind farms. In fact, I've never seen one in Louisiana for that matter.
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cmbutn2
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« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2011, 07:53:59 PM » |
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I didn't realize there were any up here until I came for Grad School two years ago. We do some structural testing at my lab at Purdue, and we have one of these blades. These things are truly massive. Each blade is over 130ft long.
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« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2011, 08:15:10 PM » |
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That's pretty cool. It makes me want to ride out to eastern Oregon to check out the wind farms over there. What part of the state is Lafayette in? My dad lives in Syracuse. I was out there last summer. Pretty country…
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cmbutn2
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« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2011, 08:42:31 PM » |
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Lafayette is on I-65 about half way between Indianapolis and Chicago.
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« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2011, 08:43:56 PM » |
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Cool report. Wind turbines are huge.
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