Story Published:
Jul 23, 2009 at 4:25 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Jul 23, 2009 at 7:15 PM CDT
In a down economy, you have to be able to adapt if you want to survive. That's what David Sinn is doing. He's raised turkeys on his farm outside of Delevan for almost 20 years, but recently he started harvesting something else, the wind.
Sinn's turbines are part of the Rail Splitter Wind Farm that the company Horizon Wind Energy built in-between the Delavan and Emden area.
Each turbine can produce energy for about 450 homes, that means the wind farm can provide energy for around 33-thousand households in the area. Sinn says he's lucky to have them.
"I look at it this way its green energy, its renewable and in 20–30 years if the project decides to go down when they tear them down there won't be anything left in the landscape they'll take everything out down to four foot below ground level so we can farm right back over it again so and it's a green thing and we got to go with that."
Sinn also says the wind turbines will do more than keep the environment clean, they'll also boost the local economy. He says that the Olympia and Hartsburg–Emden school districts will receive about 250,000 dollars in tax revenue and the Emden school district will get up to 90,000 dollars.
