Re: Pipestone



Noone wrote:



The turbines are part of the Buffalo Ridge project. Buffalo Ridge is a land formation that runs NW-SE in SW Minnesota
and offers a 2000 ft high elevation in the otherwise 1500 ft elevation of the flatter prairie. A good place to catch the wind.

Some links:
http://www.cropchoice.com/leadstrywind111504.html
http://www.me3.org/issues/wind/index.html <http://www.cropchoice.com/leadstrywind111504.html>


Blakely LaCroix
Minneapolis, MN



Corrected link: (good resource on Wind Power in MN)
http://www.me3.org/issues/wind/index.html
<http://www.me3.org/issues/wind/index.html> <http://www.me3.org/issues/wind/index.html>


Yeah, the weather changes there also. Ease of the line from Sisseton and Sioux City the snow patterns are distinctively different from the surrounding areas. After my winter in Morris I keep a copy of http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/DATA/cursnow_usa.gif on my desk.

I think I drove headlong into Buffalow Ridge at the MN-SD state line near Brown's Valley. It's flat prairie before, flat prairie after, and a huge wall that defines the "arrowhead" in western Minnesota that sticks into the Dakotas.

I was at the Dubliner in St. Paul last Saturday, the 2nd, then drove through Mankato and back roads back to see the farm in the daytime. Much cooler there than here (104 yesterday, with 70 dewpoint -- weather only a native could love)

Your second link suggests that there were 916.5 Mw on-line in April 2004 at Buffalo Ridge. This implies about 1200 turbines, if they are all the 750Kw model. One of the locals at a diner in Pipestone said they're building more all the time and they run all up into South Dakota.

I'm all fired up. I want to find out more, and let some of the oil venture buddies that I know take a look at this. A single oil well here is a "venture" and a small number of investors will "go in" on one. Seems like the finance, risk, land rights, and legal aspects would have a lot of similarity.

Just image, Texans making money from big wind ...



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