| Through the years, the business place has changed. | | | | highway between Springfield and Lamar, Colorado, |
| Verious ergonomic changes have taken place, | | | | Emick Ranch is home to a hundred of the towering |
| retrofitting business solutions to the problems | | | | wind absorbing giants. The prairies have long been |
| created by technology. Redundant as that may | | | | renowned as a great place for raising rattlesnakes, |
| appear on some levels, synergetically sound planning | | | | cattle, wheat, and sagebrush, now our fame is |
| isn't possible with the current speed of technological | | | | growing, over two hundred feet tall to include Wind |
| advances. Simply stated: Technology surges beyond | | | | Powered General Electric Generators. I love it. The |
| our wildest imagined dreams.Years ago windmills of | | | | new wave of the nation, cartwheeling three armed |
| wood and metal powered the well to bring up | | | | giants facing the sunset, whipping the prairies dry, |
| enough water for the cattle, Saturday night radio | | | | and capturing the energy long been lost as the winds |
| programs, and occasionally the family had electric | | | | blow across Colorado.Turbines the size of a |
| light, if they had an electric lamp. Now a wind | | | | semi-truck sit atop the towers, spinning blades the |
| powered generator standing two hundred feet | | | | length of four cars, and collecting energy. If you ever |
| above the surface of the earth pulls enough to | | | | get a chance to see the new giants of the prairie - |
| power an entire community. Four of them provide | | | | you won't be disappointed. Photos of these wonder |
| power for our town. More wind generators are being | | | | machines are cropping up everywhere.Copyright (c) |
| positioned south of town, on the hill. Enough wind | | | | 2005 - Jan VerhoeffJan Verhoeff combines 27 years |
| generators to keep us cool all winter long - I'm afraid | | | | of service in the Free Enterprise domain and a |
| - if the wind blows from the south. Stulp farms, | | | | lifetime of education in business development to bring |
| home of John Stulp, former Prowers County | | | | expertise and understanding of basic business |
| Commissioner is placing 50 of the gigantic towers on | | | | principles to new business owners. An expert in the |
| his place, just south of the Lamar city limits. They will | | | | field of business development, Jan presents |
| be visible from Spreading Antler Golf Course, from | | | | conceptual information through publications, live |
| Lamar Community College, and various other land | | | | presentations, and Power Launch, a weekly live |
| marks across southeastern Colorado.Located on the | | | | conference chat for business developers. |