Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Wind Power, Old Style

Claflin, Kansas

People have been using the wind here for a long time. A century and more ago, renewable green energy was seen as just common sense.

4 comments:

Markus said...

Soothing colors and proportions here. Whilst this kind of green energy could not satisfy our current hunger for electricity, it is good to remember the way basic needs have been catered for in a sustainable way.

Carl Weese said...

Markus, good point about not satisfying current energy expectations. Units like this would have predated "rural electrification" and it probably served (maybe still does) to draw water from a well for cattle pastured in the area.

Markus said...

Carl, I think that in spite of being so old, this unit still is a good hint that part of the pioneer spirit was "to be independent". No Caribic/Arab/Alaska crude needed back then...

Anonymous said...

I suspect if was more a case of that's all they had rather than a devotion to mother earth.

Once the rural electric cooperatives came along they we're more than happy to have fossil fueled electricity.