Lake Agassiz Wind Farm

Topic of conversation today in 56572 is the wind. Some of us spent most of last night listening to it. With 40 mph winds forecast, our PRHS Vikings will have to rely on their running game to beat Breckenridge tonight. This week Lake Region Electric crews have been out in the middle of Norwegian Grove Township Section 16 digging in electrical service. The difference between this week and any other week is that these wires will carry electricity to the grid. A test wind turbine is being installed. For the next fifteen months engineers will be impressed by the winds on the eastern shore of Glacial Lake Agassiz. Here's hoping it leads to a Wind Farm. This is some of the best news to come along in a long time. While in Duluth a few weeks back we noted that some of the ships coming in had their cargo on deck, Danish windmill blades ready to be reloaded on to trucks and hauled diagonally across Minnesota on MN23 to Buffalo Ridge in the southwestern corner of the state. We'll be looking for these trucks on MN108, headed for a room with a view out over the Red River Valley of the North. Strike up the band when they get here. More details and photos as we get them.....

Note to Collin Peterson: Keep politics out of this:
from Wikipedia
As of May 31, 2006, the FAA has stopped construction at 15 Midwest wind farm projects over concerns about interference with military radar.[3] The reason for this is that a defense appropriation bill passed in January 2006 contained a provision requiring studies of the effects of wind farms on military radar, language added to the bill by Cape Wind project opponents. Since then, the FAA has began permitting construction to resume, as no evidence of any radar difficulty has been found (or ever was suspected).