Thursday, September 30, 2010

Emu Downs Wind Farm, near Cervantes, WA

Wind farms are becoming a common site throughout Australia...now totalling 42. This particular wind farm has 48 wind turbines and provides renewable energy electricity to run a desalination plant, 260 km (160 miles) to the south. The Kwinana Desalination Plant, which is located just south of Perth, turns water from the Indian Ocean into nearly 152 million litres (40 million gallons) of drinking water per day.