Wind Power in Kansas

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• Geography
  • Wind Resources Map [.pdf]
  • Untilled/Tallgrass Prairie Map [.pdf]
  • Wind and Prairie Maps
  • Ecoregions of Kansas and Nebraska
• Bibliography
  • General
    • Gateway to The History of Windmills
    • Green Peace: Directory of Wind Power Systems
    • Topics in Kansas History
    • Bicentennial Water Windmill, Kansas City Public Library
    • Windmill links - various countries
  • Special
    • Windmillers' Gazette Issue-by-Issue Contents Since 1982
      [tables of contents]
    • Windmill Books by T. Lindsay Baker
• Reference
  • FPL Wind Energy
  • How does a Wind Turbine Work?
  • Medium-size and Large Wind Turbines (Articles)
  • Small and Household-size Wind Turbines (Articles)
  • Renewable Energy: Wind Power, by Chris Tuttle (2002 March 5-6)
  • Windmill Wikipedia
  • Wind Engines - Windpumps and American style windmills
  • Windmills of the USA
• On-Line Materials
  • Documents
    • Kansas Energy Legislation
    • Kansas Energy Council Reports
    • 2000, Kansas Energy Report [.pdf]
    • 2003 December 4, Governor's Request for Task Force
    • 2004 January 23, Governor's Message to the SERCC Wind and Prairie Task Force Presented by Joyce Allegrucci, Chief of Staff to the Governor
    • 2004 January 23, Governor's Message
    • 2004 January 4, Kansas Energy Plan [.pdf]
    • 2004 January 12, Kansas Energy Plan 2004
    • 2004 January 13, Kansas Energy Plan 2003 [.pdf]
    • 2004 January 25, Governor's Message to the SERCC Wind and Prairie Task Force Presented by Joyce Allegrucci, Chief of Staff to the Governor
    • 2004 June 1, Governor Sebelius issues Executive Order 04-05 Forms the Kansas Energy Council to strengthen Kansas economy
    • 2004 June 4, Governor's Charge to the Kansas Energy Council
    • 2004 June 6, Windpower Task Force Final Report [.pdf]
    • 2004 June 7, Statement from Governor Kathleen Sebelius upon receiving the Wind and Prairie Task Force Report
    • 2004, December 20, Kansas Energy Report for 2005 [.pdf]
    • 2006, Kansas Energy Report [.pdf]
    • 2006 May, Wind Energy Siting Handbook [42 pp., .pdf]
    • 2007 May, Biodiesel In Kansas [.pdf]
    • 2007 May, Cellulosic Ethanol/Bioethanol in Kansas [.pdf]
    • 2007 July, Community Wind Incentives, A summary of select policies in Iowa, Minnesota, and Kansas [.pdf]
    • 2007 August, Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Policy and Economics | Kansas Energy Council [.pdf]
  • Books
    • Wind Energy in America: A History by Robert Righter [A review by Paul Gipe]
    • Wind Power Books
    • Wind Energy Books
    • Wind Basics Books
    • Wind Power in View Books
    • Wind power books in French
  • Articles
    • "Brief History of Windmills in the New World", by T. Lindsay Baker
    • Small Wind Electric Systems: A Kansas Consumer's Guide (Revised) [.pdf]
    • Small Wind in Kansas
    • Topics in Kansas History: Agriculture, Essay
  • Periodicals
    • Kansas Energy Council News
    • The Wind Engineer Newsletters
    • Windmillers' Gazette Issue-by-Issue Contents Since 1982 [Tables of Contents]
    • Windmillers' Gazette
    • Wind and Prairie Task Force News
    • Windpower Monthly
  • Data
    • Hourly Wind Data From NIAA
    • NOAA Graphical Forecast for Kansas
    • NOAA, Wind Profile Data: LIDAR
    • NOAA Recorded Average Wind Speed Data through 2001 [scroll down]
    • NOAA Recorded Average Wind Speed Data through 2001 [scroll down]
    • FIRE Cirrus 2 NOAA Wind Profiler Data Set Document
• Images
  • General
    • A Gallery of Historic Windmill Photographs
      [An excellent collection of some fifty images of various makes of windmills, shown in functional settings, with approximate dates given: Examples follow:]
      • 1910, Aermotor Company, Chicago, Illinois
      • 1930M Althouse-Wheeler Company, Waupun, Wisconsin.
      • 1910, Araou Brothers, Narbonne, France.
      • 1910, Baker Manufacturing Company, Evansville, Wisconsin.
      • 1910, Challenge Company, Batavia, Illinois.
      • 1917, Currie Windmill Company, Topeka, Kansas.
      • 1909, Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company, Beatrice, Nebraska.
      • 1910, Duplex Manufacturing Company, Superior, Wisconsin.
      • 1910, Elgin Windmill Company, Elgin, Illinois.
      • 1915, Fairbanks, Morse and Company, Chicago, Illinois.
      • 1910, J. Figuerola, Valencia, Spain.
      • 1916, S. Freeman and Sons Manufacturing Company, Racine, Wisconsin.
      • 1910, Flint and Walling Manufacturing Company, Kendallville, Indiana.
      • 1910, Freeport Machine Company, Freeport, Illinois.
      • 1910, Heller-Aller Company, Napoleon, Ohio. A
      • 1915, E. Lebert, Le Mans, France.
      • 1910, Perkins Wind Mill Company, Mishawaka, Indiana.
      • 1915, Sandwich Enterprise Company, Sandwich, Illinois.
      • 1910, http://www.windmillersgazette.com/images/photo43.jpg
      • 1902, Stover Manufacturing Company, Freeport, Illinois.
      • 1906, .S. Wind Engine and Pump Company, Batavia, Illinois.
      • 1910, Vereinigten Windturbinenwerke, A.G., Dresden, Germany.
      • 1910, Woodmanse Manufacturing Company, Freeport, Illinois.
  • Kansas Windmills
    IMG
    • Kansas Photo Tour: Windmills
      • Photos and Cultural Icons of Wind Turbines
    • Chapman, Windmill Inn Bed & Breakfast
    • Hiawatha
    • Hillsboro
    • Hillsboro and Vicinity
    • Queen Windmill [KSHS]
    • Windmill Lane: Brown Co. KS Agricultural Museum
• Organizations
  • Agencies
    • Kansas Energy Council
    • Kansas Geological Survey
    • Kansas Renewable Energy Working Group
    • Wind and Prairie Task Force
    • Wildlife Management Institute
  • Research Centers
    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory
    • National Wind Technology Center
    • National Wind Technology Center
    • NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    • NOAA - Aeronomy Laboratory
    • NOAA - National Severe Storms Laboratory
    • NOAA Photo Library Search Facility
    • Renewable Energy Policy Project
    • Wood's Hole Research Center
    • World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)
  • Associations
    • Southwestern Pioneer Windmill Association, Vintage Windmill Collection [Excellent Images and Discussion of Various Early Windmills]
    • The American Association for Wind Engineering
  • Companies
    • General
      • Windpower Manufacturers
    • Historic Windmill Manufacturers
      • "American Wind Power Center and Windmill Museum
      • Currie Windmill [KSHS]
      • RG Kirkwood's Wrought-Iron Windmll. Arkansas City, Kansas.
    • Developers of Windpower in Kansas
      • Aquila
      • Black and Vetch Holding Co.
      • enXco
      • ScottishPower News
      • Tower Tech Yahoo Summary
      • Westar Wind
• Projects
  • Elk River KS
  • Elk River Wind Farm Photographs
  • Gray County Wind Farm KS [Aquila]
  • Kansas Wind Energy Projects
  • Smoky Hills Wind Farm, Salina, KS, Trade Wind Energy, Hutchinson News, 06 January 2008
  • Spearville Wind Energy Facility
  • The Sunflower Electric Wind Farm
  • Pickens Plan, T. Boone Pickens "Wind Belt"
• Information Exchange
  • Wind and Prairie Task Force
• Issues
  • Alliance for Sound Energy Policy, Kansas-based [new, January 2008]
  • Siting Guidelines for Wind Projects in Kansas [.pf]
  • Siting Guidelines for Wind Projects in Kansas [.pf]
  • Wind Power and Wildlife Issues in Kansas
  • The Aesthetic Dissonance of Industrial Wind Machines [.pdf]
  • Audubon Society of Kansas, Our Position on Wind Energy in Kansas, Part One
  • Green Meeting, News on sustainable events, trade shows, conventions, business travel
• Extreme Weather
  • The Dust Bowl
  • Kansas Cyclones and The Wizard of Oz
  • Wind Damage in Kansas [images]
• History
  • The Old Windmill [Lawrence, Douglas County]
  • Kansas Wind Energy Development
  • The Windmills That Won the West [from: the Invention & Technology Magazine, Fall 2003]
  • Aeromotor Windmill, History
  • Aeromotor Windmill, History
  • Currie Windmill History
  • Kansas Wind Power since 1975 [Kansas Wind Power-W, 13569, 214th Road, Holton, KS 66436]
  • 1930-1935, The Dust Bowl
  • Dust Bowl History

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