Old Standards & New Sentinels - Wind Chargers

Driving along US Highway 287 south of Lamar, Colorado, you arrive somewhere near the Gobbler's Knob Ridge before you actually catch a vision of what's to come. Rolling spin wheels arise from the highway like sentinels of espionage, awaiting take over. Then before you know what happened, you arrive amid these towers of sobering strength, so stupendously tall that you wonder how they were contrived and built across a flat land that drifts off to infinity.

As far as you can see, the towers flow across the prairie like an unending fence, neatly arranged in spectacular arrays of rows, lines, curls and cubes along the most traveled trails of natures highest winds. Towering over the back roads and rolling non-stop through the skies, these towers of energy generating power stand vigil.

Those tiny blue lines you see far beyond the green, hidden in the colors of the sky are power generating wind chargers, destined to greatness on the vast Colorado prairie.

A vision among change, are these magnanimous towers our future, or a mundane sequel of our past?

"As a general fuel source," Cleve Tidwell stated, “Wind is not an efficient energy source because you must refurbish or replace generators within a short period of time. Eventually, you’ll need to replace the blades and towers for the same reasons. They simply wear out, causing wind energy generation to be extremely costly.”

From this vantage point, the combination of old rock fence, built near the early portion of the 1900's by pioneering settlers who arrived in the area on the Homestead Act, demands as much attention as the Sentinels of the Future spinning behind it.

Is there value in the wind energy produced by these giants? Please take a moment and leave a comment about your views.