Alternative Wind Energy, cool video.

One of the first amazing sights when driving to Yosemite from SF is not a natural beauty at all… for me, it is the wind farm just about 30 minutes past the bay bridge, just over the first rolling hills that separate the Bay Area from “inland” California.

Karenne took this shot out the window while heading toward Yosemite.

While not the best shot, it does show a few of the amazing turbines spinning away on the hill sides.  To take in the view really is pretty (dorky &) amazing.

So today I Stumbled Upon something similar, but so very, very different: an alternative wind energy source on a very small scale.  Remember those educational films on the Tacoma Narrows bridge?  This guy used them as motivation to design a new type of wind energy… watch the video here. Amazingly nerdy and awesome.

Tacoma Narrows Bridge: It went all wobbly in the wind before shattering.

So, if you are like me… you thought the video was great… and applications for low cost, small scale energy sources in the third world are amazing.

Have fun out there…