Of wood and wind
Challicum Hills Wind Farm is a wind power station near Ararat in western Victoria, Australia.
With the family car tanked up with SAFF Biodiesel, this was a great stop over on the start of our greenhouse friendly holiday.
The complex has 35 wind turbines, with a total generating capacity of 52.5 MW of electricity. The energy is produced by Pacific Hydro for Origin Energy who pass on the electricity to our home and this computer. :-)
Farming continues around and between the towers. It is a nice picture of contrast of orange sand and blue sky, wood and steel, old and new technologies that now try harder to be environmentally sustainable. At least for my eyes, they are less of a blot on the landscape than a smoky, brown coal fired power station.
When I checked the Challicum Hills Wikipedia entry, I noticed and relocated the specific geotagged map reference that had somehow been positioned on Ararat. Whilst online I relocated the map link, added some further notes, a reference and this picture into the Wikipedia commons.