{"id":1163,"date":"2009-11-08T05:18:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T10:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2023-03-20T12:10:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T17:10:18","slug":"wind-generators-and-general-windiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/2009\/11\/08\/wind-generators-and-general-windiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind Generators and General Windiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3706.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3706-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"My car's inseparable friend.\" title=\"My car's inseparable friend.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3706-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3706-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3706-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3706-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3706-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3706-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been quite some time since I wrote the previous post.  No doubt some loyal readers were wondering such things as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cDid Zach just stay in Utah forever?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDid Zach ever install his carputer or did he only assemble it?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDid Zach actually, in fact, die?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIf I had a nickel for every blog post apologizing for not updating frequently enough, how much money would I have?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIs this project <i>ever<\/i> going to be finished?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat\u2019s for lunch?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I apologize first for making you ask those questions, second for waiting so long to answer them, and third for not giving you a single nickel for this very apology.  Because these questions do have answers.  Answers such as \u2018no\u2019, \u2018yes\u2019, \u2018no\u2019, \u2018more than enough to pay for the rest of my gas\u2019, \u2018definitely\u2019, and \u2018delicious sushi with a glass of Oolong tea!\u2019<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3698.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3698-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"U is for Utah!\" title=\"U is for Utah!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3698-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3698-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3698-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3698-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3698-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3698-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which ties in nicely to what I was wondering about as I drove out of Utah, very alive and full from a delicious lunch, to continue my amazing project: wind generators.  It so happens that I ran across a couple of them on my way.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3707.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3707-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"And behold, the wind generators were spread out before me, as ripe fruit to the harvest.\" title=\"And behold, the wind generators were spread out before me, as ripe fruit to the harvest.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3707-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3707-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3707-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3707-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3707-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3707-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, it so happens that I ran across a friggin\u2019 slew of them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3699.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3699-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"You may wonder, were they generating a headwind or a tailwind?\" title=\"You may wonder, were they generating a headwind or a tailwind?\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1173\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3709.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3709-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"When they are all turned up full, they can reputedly generate hurricane-velocity winds.\" title=\"When they are all turned up full, they can reputedly generate hurricane-velocity winds.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1181\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3704.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3704-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"WHOOOOOSH!\" title=\"WHOOOOOSH!\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1178\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3700.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3700-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Just think of how much change this wind farm causes!\" title=\"Just think of how much change this wind farm causes!\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1174\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3701.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3701-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"WHOOOSH!\" title=\"WHOOOSH!\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1175\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3703.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3703-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tote that pail, generate that wind, pitch the council tent...\" title=\"Tote that pail, generate that wind, pitch the council tent...\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1177\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What was the world like before we had wind generators?  What was the world\u2019s weather like with so much less wind?  Did we have clouds or only fog?  Was the Midwest still windier than the rest of the US?<\/p>\n<p style=\"float: right; margin: 7\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3710.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3710-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"There they are standing in a row.\" title=\"A wind farm.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3710-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3710-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3710-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3710-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3710-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3710-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of the world\u2019s wind generators are located on \u201cwind farms,\u201d huge wind-producing complexes of wind generators, which are also often located close to actual farms.  The reason for this is that wind farms, with their ability to generate wind in just about any direction, can effectually control the weather \u2013 of course, their direct influence on the weather fades quickly with distance, but the effect is, of course, worldwide (a la butterfly effect).  Amazing, what mankind has wrought.<\/p>\n<p>Then I thought about Chicago, dubbed \u201cThe Windy City\u201d long before the advent of these marvelous weather-influencing machines.  That was a different type of wind, however.<\/p>\n<p>And I felt inspired by both types of wind.  Wind.  Wind carries the seeds of life from one place to another.  Wind makes waves, affecting even the underwater world it cannot directly touch.  Wind pollinates plants, carries whispers, lifts the eagle high into the sky, fills a boat\u2019s sails and gives it motion.  Wind turns the weathervane of change, and blows the dust from the old and stagnant.  The wind completely shapes the unplanted desert, and can wear down even rock with its persistence.  Wind.<\/p>\n<p>And wind generators, though manmade, are one source of this wind, this agent of life, transportation, and change.  And I too can be a wind generator!  I will blow my trump and sound my horn and smack my drum to the beat of a different drummer, drumming together with 100 different friends from different cities and cultures.  I will carry the seeds of music to places they have never been carried.  I will blow a wind that has never been blown.  I will bring music around the world and bounce the music of one man off another&#8217;s until all the world has connected their ideas in one big celebratory web of human experience.<\/p>\n<p>I believe strongly that music is a language common to all humanity (one of very few such languages), and is therefore something remarkable and unique.  With my Recording Tour of Love, I want to promote inter-cultural dialog to an extent impossible using traditional languages.  With the wind of this project, I will blow the world together in a collaborative effort heretofore unseen.<\/p>\n<p>Things like this go through my head all the time, I just don\u2019t often write about them because I\u2019m too busy doing something about them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUm&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What is it, Attractive Girl?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know that wind generators don\u2019t actually generate wind, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, so?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay, just making sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3702.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3702-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Wind Generators: Not Really Generators of Wind\" title=\"Wind Generators: Not Really Generators of Wind\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3702-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3702-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3702-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3702-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3702-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3702-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Soon I was out of Utah and on my way to Fort Collins.  I was happy to say that getting out of the cattle region of Montana\/Utah\/Idaho also put this behind me:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3697.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3697-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Grisly scene of carnage.\" title=\"Grisly scene of carnage.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3697-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3697-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3697-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3697-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3697-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3697-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>NEXT: Carputer&#8230; PART DEUX!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been quite some time since I wrote the previous post. No doubt some loyal readers were wondering such things as: \u201cDid Zach just stay in Utah forever?\u201d \u201cDid Zach ever install his carputer or did he only assemble &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/2009\/11\/08\/wind-generators-and-general-windiness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,3],"tags":[347,346,348,345],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-sceneit","category-tour","tag-grisly-carnage","tag-oolong-tea","tag-vision","tag-wind-generator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}