Yep. We saw one of the biggest farms in that area.
We drive through a quite large wind farm in central Indiana headed north on i-65 to get to Chicago every few months. That one pales by comparison to all the stuff we saw in Texas.
Side note: I’ve heard that with every revolution of the blades of a single windmill enough power is generated to power an average home for one day. I don’t “know” if that is true, though.
Driving across the panhandle out of Amarillo, I checked the winf farm as either 22 or 26 miles long and as far as I could see across the horizon
I think I measured 22 miles and added 4 after I realized what I was seeing
For comparison, my ex and now deceased room mate measured a Texas cotton field as 3 miles by as far as you could see.
They absolutely don’t screw around in Texas
A 5 megawatt wind turbine at it’s rated power and speed is turning 12 rpm. So each turn of the rotor would be 5000 kilowatts rather power per hour/ 60 min to an hour/ 12 rotors rotations per min = 7 kWh per spin. The average home uses 1500 kWh in summer and 500 kWh in winter per month so no where near enough per spin. It’s about 3.5 hours of power for the avg home per spin. 1500kWh /31days /24hours =2 kWh per hour.
The last two times I drove thru that area, better than half the turbines were not turning.
Pretty sure NOT TRUE.