Windmill Tours provides California windmill guided tours
located in Palm Springs, CA, near the intersection of
Interstate 10 and Indian Avenue. Guests visit operating wind turbine generators
ranging from first generation small machines to new 4th generation equipment standing
nearly 20 stories high. This California wind farm tour does more than just disseminate
information on the wind farms, our program teaches people how to make a difference. The
tour is a short course in ecology awareness and environmentally friendly power.
Through a logical progression of the evolution of the wind energy
industry, we lead our guests to an historic understanding, its technology (how the
windmills work), meteorology (why they work) and their place in alternative energy power
production (how they contribute). Our guests gain an understanding of the electric power
distribution system in this county through the workings of this environmentally conscious
power generating plant, on to an in depth discovery of what to anticipate from the
deregulation of the electrical power distribution industry. Guests come to recognize
local, national and global demands for increased power production and how to
accommodate those new demands from environmentally friendly sources.
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For centuries, the winds moved ships and people and cargo from
place to place. Christopher Columbus could never have discovered the New World. Without
wind, exploration of the high seas would have had to wait for the invention of the steam
engine in the eighteenth century.
Today, wind power is starting to become popular
again. In California, "wind farmers" have set up hundreds of wind turbines in
breezy mountain passes and sell the electricity generated to major utility companies.
There are now more than 15,000 wind turbines in California producing enough power to meet
the needs of about one million people. California produces 80% of all of the world’s
wind-generated electricity. Denmark produces much of the rest with Australia, Germany,
Spain, the Netherlands, the British Isles and India also generating large amounts of
electricity from the wind.
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