We’ve posted a few videos and things from our trip to the wind turbine at Jiminy Peak, but we haven’t talked about it much yet. So … that’s exactly what I’m going to do.
First off, here are the basics: It went up in August of 2007, it’s 80 meters high (that’s 262.467192 feet according to Google), each blade is 37 meters long (~121 feet … which is about 10 feet bigger than the largest blue whale ever recorded) and it’s roughly a 7-to-7.5 year return on investment for the folks at Jiminy Peak. (I will go deeper into how they made this whole thing happen in another post. Turns out it’s not super easy for an individual/organization to procure a single turbine.)
Anyhow, here’s Betsy from Jiminy talking about how it happened and why they made the decision to go with a turbine:
As a side note, she mentions the trouble with getting it up there. We’re trying to find the video of them doing that to throw up on the site. Hopefully will be up in the next few days.