Re: Pipestone


"Aubrey McIntosh, Ph.D." wrote:

> 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 ...

Thanks for the NOAA link! I have been studying the Hudson Bay region and
having data on the sea ice is most useful.

Blakely

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