Windmills

I looked at the official festival brochure yesterday, and sure enough, these windmills are supposed to power the whole race village. That's what the brochure says, anyway. It's a "green" event... sponsored by an automobile manufacturer. I'd bet they get at least some of their power off the grid, if not most of it. I'm not as cynical as my husband, though, who thinks that the windmills are purely for show.


As I was taking these pictures, there was a guy walking past who looked like he might know something.
I said: "These sure look pretty permanent for something that just went up two days ago."
"They won't be there long, don't worry," he replied.

Too bad. I kinda like them.

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Anonymous said…
Apparently they're going to be left up as part of one of those green initiatives. Not only will they, in theory, power the race pavilion, but the plan is to leave them up to power some stuff in the harbour, and whatever is on site afterwards. Can't remember where I heard this originally, but one of the local papers (either the G.A. or the G.I) reminded me of it.
This is Jenny by the way! Hi to Nova! :)
May 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM
Amelia said…
No such luck, Jenny. Although the Harbormaster is on record as saying he thinks they're great, apparently the Galway Harbor Company doesn't want them. I got an update from one of the windmill company guys this morning. See next post (when I get around to making it).
May 23, 2009 at 1:15 PM
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