Wind Farms

Wind farms are becoming a large presence in California, as I discovered on the long drive from Los Angeles to Jonathan Tree park. A wind farm is a collection of wind turbines, and they use nature's wind to generate energy. California's various wind farms produced 4258 million kilowatt-hours of electricity. To give a little bit of context, that is about 1.5% of the total California energy consumption. This may not seem like a lot of energy, but as the title of my blog suggests, small efforts can create large changes.

As can be seen in the picture, these wind farms aren't the most beautiful plot of land. I wonder if it would be possible to start to create a type of designer wind mill--with maybe some pretty colors or patterns. One wind farm could be painted strategically to look like a rainbow. Maybe have the wind mills look more like the pin-wheels that I played with as a child. Or even have local designers come in and each decorate a wind mill to their liking. The possibilities are limitless.

Once I become rich enough to fund something like this, I would like to add the element of art to the wind mills. There are already so many great monuments in the United States, and it would be great to have another that people can visit, take pictures with, and spread the word about. The project could become less about the design and more about the attraction of decorated wind mills. Assuming the general public appreciates this idea as much as I do, they will start to create designer wind farms in their towns and the world can have more natural electricity than ever before.