Bowling Green Visit---Strings Camp and Wind Turbines

We took my younger son, the upright bass player, to Orchestra Strings Camp at Bowling Green State University over the past weekend. He will be there until this Saturday when we return to hear him play the pieces they are learning in the orchestra there.

We will first get to hear him play in a chamber performance---in his case, it is going to be a duet with just him and another upright bass player---and then we will get to hear him play in the entire strings group orchestra.

He has been looking forward to going to this camp for a while. He went to it last year and really loved it. He seemed to learn a lot from going there and also met others who enjoy music the way he does. In fact, it was at Strings Camp last year that he met his girlfriend. She plays the violin and piano and is planning to also learn the viola. Yes, they have now been dating for a year! Ay-yi-yi! Well, we won't go into that topic for now.

It was fun to take him to camp because I found out that the dorm he is staying in for camp this year is the same one I was in for my freshman year at college. He thought it was fun, too, to get to experience what the rooms are like now that I stayed in during my college days.

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The town of Bowling Green has these wind turbines on the edge of the city that they use as an alternative energy source. I took a couple of pictures of them from the car as we drove by. You can see two of the wind turbines in the front. If you enlarge the pictures, you can see two more of them in the distance.


From Wikipedia, this tells a little bit about them:

"Bowling Green has made a financial commitment to reducing its impact on global climate change. Bowling Green has spent $8.8 million dollars and is home to Ohio's first utility-sized wind farm. There are four turbines that are 391 feet tall. These turbines generate up to 7.2 megawatts of power—enough to supply electricity for some 3,000 residents. Located about six miles from the city, the turbines can be seen for miles and have become a local attraction."

Here is a video of a large wind farm out in the Coachella Valley in California that tells a little bit more about this form of producing energy.

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