Or maybe smaller. I almost laughed when I saw this. They're very good at taking photos like this. What is not clear is that the turbine is quite a bit farther back from the house and the windmill.
Those boxes near the turbine are, I think, double-stacked shipping containers, which would reach the house roof if they sat right next to it. Imagine the house that small and you're getting closer...
A nacelle, which houses the generator at the top of the tower, and our car.
Credits: John Sweet, Mustoe VA
Backbone Mountain in Tucker County, WV
14 October 2002
Full photo set at http://johnrsweet.com/personal/wind/windpix2.html
Wind turbines compared with the Washington Monument in Washington DC. The new GE turbine generating approximately 3-megawatts (shadow in background) would be shorter but have a larger rotor diameter (140 meters) than an experimental five-megawatt turbine.
Here is a picture of the d'Entremont home in Nova Scotia, where their ancestors have lived since the 1870s.
Daniel and Carolyn d'Entremont, with their 5 children, had to abandon it on Feb. 21, 2006, because of "wind turbine syndrome," the cluster of symptoms being found around the world where people live near giant wind turbines.
Dr. Nina Pierpont of Malone, N.Y., has interviewed them as part of her research into this problem. She testified before the New York State Legislature Energy Committee on March 7. A 68-KB PDF of her testimony is available at AWEO.org. Here is an excerpt.
Mike Yagelski, an ironworker from Livingston, Mont., is dwarfed by the huge rotor that he helped set Thursday, Oct. 6, 2005, high atop a huge wind-powered generator near Judith Gap, Mont.
A semi truck navigates the gravel roads between wind turbines at the Wild Horse Wind Project construction site, Kittitas County. July 12, 2006.
A farm house near Montezuma, about 25 miles southwest of Dodge City, is dwarfed by a row of 13 wind turbines standing 230 feet tall.
Hull Light Department's 240-foot-tall wind turbine was erected in 2001.
