The future of American energy might be a blast from the past — windmills. All too often, it is easy to just think of the old fashioned farm windmill used to pump water out of a well. But, today’s windmills are high tech creations that are designed to produce huge amounts of energy by converting the power of wind into useful electricity for our homes.

Windmills are producing power in Indiana right now and in other locations around the nation.

Windmills by Anh Quan

Windmills. Photo by Anh Quan

Wouldn’t it be cool to take a closer look at what’s happening inside and around these giant windmills?

Luckily for us, the award-winning video below gives us a tour of these high tech energy generators that might be the solution for our desire to be energy independent.

Video: Take A Tour of Modern Windmills

Video: Earl Park Wind Energy Farm

Related link: Benton County Wind Farm

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Comments

4 Responses to “Go Inside A Wind Turbine”

  1. Mohammad Murphy on April 30th, 2010 6:41 pm

    Wind power is a good source of electricity but it also takes up lots of space just like solar power plants.’”,

  2. Caramoan  on October 14th, 2010 12:18 am

    i would prefer wind power over solar cells coz they do not waste a lot of area.-`

  3. Electric Blankets  on October 14th, 2010 12:41 am

    wind farms in germany are great! i hope that we could install those in every country,;`

  4. Socket Sets : on October 25th, 2010 10:02 am

    our hometown already have wind farms and it is great to know that we have a reneawable electricity source;*.

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