Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

This has been playing on tv lately. Here is a screenshot, I can't find the entire commercial. It's an Aermotor mounted on top of a cell tower. Anyone know anything more about this? Where it is? etc?

Haven't seen the commercial but that's wild.

Sure would be a long pump pole....

Some areas of the country don't allow cell phone towers to be erected. However, if it has some other purpose they are allowed. So, some companies put a windmill head on the tower AND also put cell phone equipment in the tower.

Some companies descise the cell tower as a tree, a flag pole, tops of multi story buildings, etc.
They are still eye sores , just not as bad eye sores.

That's amazing. I would have never figured that. Thanks.

A guy I worked with for years has a cell phone tower in his church's front yard. Its a pretty good sized cross.It brings in $2,500 a month and helps keep there church going.

I learned something on my trip last week. Some solar panel workers were staying at the motel I was at. While talking to one guy he told me they pay the land owner more bucks to allow the panels over Wind turbines because the land is of no use anymore, plus will pay the land owner for keeping the area mowed.

The payout here is 10 grand a year to start for each one of the turbines they put on the property. We just recently got about 200 of them fired up. Somehow, I expected my electric bill to be slashed in half. You know, it's that old supply/demand thing. Needless to say, it didn't of course.

We have to pay for them first, then the investors have to get their return so we will need all you can give us Windy and maybe a little more. We in Texas got to freeze and watch our pipes burst in February and now our good folks in Austin have made it where we can pay extra for the next 30 years to help out the power companies who couldn't give us power. Go figure!