February 2012

Homemade Windmill News

• Our Don Quixotes and their windmills - Daily Star Online
  Our Don Quixotes and their windmillsDaily Star OnlineWhenever he sees a windmill, he imagines it as a ferocious giant with huge arms, intent on killing him. So he attacks these windmills riding on horseback with his long spear. When he demobilises a windmill he thinks that he has killed a giant. […]
• Ogdensburg port's temporary access road readies for truck traffic Monday - WatertownDailyTimes.com
  Ogdensburg port's temporary access road readies for truck traffic MondayWatertownDailyTimes.comBy BRIAN KIDWELL OGDENSBURG — A temporary version of the port of Ogdensburg's $1.8 million access road for heavy truck traffic opened Friday and will be ready for its transport of windmill parts Monday. Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority Executive ... […]
• Out There: Decades-old windmill gets new home in Wisconsin Rapids - Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
  Out There: Decades-old windmill gets new home in Wisconsin RapidsWisconsin Rapids TribuneWorkers place a restored windmill Thursday at Harold Altenburg's farm in Wisconsin Rapids. / (CASEY LAKE/DAILY TRIBUNE) Just ask Harold Altenburg, who installed a 40-foot windmill on his 40-acre farm just days after his 79th birthday. […]
• Truck carrying windmill nearly loses load - Daily News - Galveston County
  Daily News - Galveston CountyTruck carrying windmill nearly loses loadDaily News - Galveston CountyBy TJ Aulds TEXAS CITY — A big rig hauling a piece of a segment of a giant electric generating windmill almost lost its load at the Texas City Wye. A Galveston County Sheriff's Office accident investigator said the driver of the eighteen-wheeler took ...Wi […]
• Derby Line, Vermont Windmills Cause Controversy In Canada - Huffington Post
  Derby Line, Vermont Windmills Cause Controversy In CanadaHuffington Post"You know, there really is no precedent to follow here," said Chad Farrell of Encore Redevelopment, the Burlington, Vt., company working with two dairy farmers to build the 425-foot windmills, each of which would be capable of producing enough ...and more » […]