Palm Springs is famous for many things, such as it championship golf course, resorts, and world class restaurants. After all, many of the restaurants have all or part ownership with famous movie stars, actors and musicians. The Golf Courses, well those too, many top PGA players have designed the golf courses here, folks like Greg Norman, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer to name a few. Of course, the promoters spared no expense in putting their name on them either.
Still, with all the celebrity status around here, it is refreshing to know that the wind above blows away any smog 
and keeps the sky clear. Meanwhile some green entrepreneurs many decades ago decided to use that wind to generate electricity. Thus, Palm Springs is known as the Wind Generator Capital of North America. The Wind Generators in Palm Springs are not little windmills at all, they are giant towering wind machines that are the most magnificent and majestic technologically advanced turbines you have ever seen.
How Much Energy Do the Palm Springs Wind Generators Make?
Well, I am told by the local energy district that there are several different types, the big ones make 250 to 300 Kilowatts an hour. Did you know there are over 4-thousand of them in the area? It is true. These wind machines draw tourists, clean energy enthusiasts and alternative energy scientists from around the world. The interest is shared by all local citizens and visitors alike, and there are even scheduled tours to go out and look at them up close, they are so huge, you would not believe it.
Occasionally, I will see a passer by pull off on one of the side streets to get a picture of one of these massive 
wind generators with the mountains in the background, just as the sun sets over the hills. Photographers from all over California and those traveling down Interstate Ten, will stop just to sit in awe and take a few pictures to show their friends and tell them about the power generated from these winds.
What kind of alternative energy does your city have? Do you use wind power? How about solar, hydroelectric or geo-thermal; is your city planning any of these things? It is great to see the technological advances and I am proud to live and work in an area that is on the leading edge of alternative energy - how about you?
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