Wind turbine on the way up
Kingman Daily Miner
April 29, 2008
www.kingmandailyminer.com
By James Chilton
KINGMAN - With the price of oil reaching new highs seemingly every day in the midst of America's current economic downturn, one local man is opting to sink his money into thin air - moving thin air, that is.
Within a month, Dr. John Lingenfelter will become the first Kingman resident permitted to have a wind turbine built on his property for personal power generation.
Lingenfelter's home at 1080 Riata Valley Road is where the turbine will stand, following the concrete foundation's curing process. Pure Steel Concrete, a contractor out of Fort Mohave, poured the foundation Friday morning. Following a 30-day period, Bullhead City-based contractor Sunquest Solar LLC will raise the turbine - a Skystream 3.7 model, in reference to the length of its fan blades - to its full height of 41 feet, comparable to a standard utility pole. |
