We Saw a Chicken …

Update April 2007: I’ve created a Google My Maps page for these locations: Wind Turbines from Space.

Messing about with Google Maps, I went looking for wind turbines. And yup, you can see ‘em:

• Pickering, Ontario: Vestas V80, by Pickering Nuclear Power Station. You can see this quite clearly.
• Toronto, Ontario: maybe I’m imagining I can see the WindShare turbine.

Update, 3rd May: following my posting to awea-windnet, I got three more:

• Whitewater Hill, California
• Coal Clough, England
• Carland Cross, England

Thanks to David Wright for the California location, and Joe Duddy of RES (my old employer!) for the two from England. I’ve spent quite a bit of time on the latter two windfarms.

Update, 6 May: Found a couple more windfarms from space on googleglobetrotting.com:

• near Livermore, California.
• east of Tehachapi, California — dig the arrangement of blades in the boneyard.

Update, 20 June: Google now has worldwide coverage.

• Tarifa, Spain
• Middelgrunden, København, Denmark (offshore)
• somewhere else in Denmark — these are big turbines.

Update, 29 June:

• McBride Lake, Alberta — image taken while in construction. You can see the tower sections and the blades laid out. You can even make out the crane installing one of the northern turbines. This is a Vision Quest Windelectric project.