Merrick Bank on Wind Power
Friday, May 8, 2009 at 8:03 pm
As Americans struggle with today’s economic hardships, some rural communities are looking to wind power as a way forward. In the central state of Oklahoma, known for its frequent tornadoes, wind is now seen as a positive force by scientists, businesses and universities.
The same wind that sometimes wreaks havoc is now spinning 100-meter-tall turbines that dot highways and rural landscapes, providing wind energy to city power plants.
Each turbine costs about $2 million to build and install. Developers are also paying landowners $4,000 to $6,000 per year for leases to put a turbine on their land.
In return, landowners are being asked to collect data from each turbine to perfect the technology, as scientist Angie Albers explains.
“They measure the wind’s rotation that then goes down to a data logger, which is similar to this, and then this records the data,” she says. “Then we get data chips in the mail from the landowners. They pull out the chips and then send them to us and we process the data.”
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