Today has been a really eventful day.  Not only did we accomplish the next phase of construction (thanks, to our contractor Rod Bowers Construction who has really been on the ball).  The tower is up, as you can see from the picture below.

The machinery housing (the next thing to be placed on the tower) was loaded on the truck today and went with Roger and Tom up Highway 287 towards Amarillo and Canyon.  As I write this, evryone and everything arrived safely.

And finally, the main attraction and star of the show, the turbine went through final dry-fitting assembly at GST Manufacturing before being disassembeled and put into the paint booth for a good industrial coat of standard white.  After all the pieces are dry, they will be loaded up for transportation tomorrow to the construction site.

I know, you are probably saying to yourself, "I thought this was a vertical axis wind turbine?"  Shown in the photo below, you are seeing it being assembled on it's side in the custom made jig which will also accompany it to the construction site.  At this point, you might be starting to get some sense of the scale required to generate 10 kW at the standard set by AWEA for small wind turbine classes, which is 11 m/s (roughly 24 mph) windspeed.  Don't be fooled by imitations!  11 m/s is the standard you should look for. 

We are having a blast keeping everyone posted on during this great week for us.