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Lighting up Montana with wind power is easier said than done

Stand under the towering turbines at Montana’s largest wind farm, south of Judith Gap, and the near-silent rotating blades give the illusion the earth is moving.

That is just one impression of the size and power of Montana’s first and largest wind farm, now sporting 90 wind turbines 260 feet high that capture the mountain winds whipping off the Little Belts and the Snowies.

In just a decade, wind power has gone from being an "out there" idea in the United States – technologically challenged and too expensive – to being a popular and mandated goal.

By JAN FALSTAD
Of The Gazette Staff

Full Story: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/01/news/business/25-power.txt

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