this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2026
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Not the best photo, sorry.

Out here in the farmlands as the mailbox money the farmers depend on from a scattering of oil pumpjacks here and there dries up because the oil fields no longer sustain the draw in them a lot of the farmers turn to windmills on their fields for supplemental income instead. Roughly spaced about 15 acres apart.

For whatever reason, the power generated by this field isn't even distributed locally. Instead, it's gets sent 200 miles north to San Antonio and then further on to Austin.

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[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] microfiche@hexbear.net 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah, but idc.

[–] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

So it’s not connected to a local grid? Thought grids where almost uniform infrastructure and electricity is used as close to where it was generated to minimise losses?