What is the Significance of the Wind Generators on Buffalo Ridge for the Midwest and U.S.?

Since 1994, when the proposal of a wind plant on Buffalo Ridge was put into commission, the idea of wind as an alternative resource has sky rocketed. Seventy-three turbines have increased to over two-hundred-six in 1998, than an overwhelming amount of near three-hundred in the year two-thousand-two. Minnesota’s Lake Benton area around the Buffalo Ridge has become the largest wind farm outside of California. Lake Benton has become known as the “Wind power capital” of the American Midwest. The idea of wind as an alternative resource is rising more and more interests because of its low cost and environmental benefits.
The generators that can be seen are entirely made up of the Kenetech KVS-33 wind towers. Each turbine stands more than two-hundred feet high with rotor blades seventy to one-hundred feet long and weighs more than one-hundred tons. The turbines stand at about one-thousand-eight-hundred feet above sea level. Each turbine costs one-million dollars to install. When t...