{"id":583,"date":"2009-07-21T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2009-07-21T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T20:52:00","slug":"american-turbine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/american-turbine\/","title":{"rendered":"american turbine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Goodheart <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/19\/magazine\/19wind-t.html?ref=magazine\">mulls over the place of the wind turbine<\/a> in the American landscape:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just a century ago, however, windmills by the hundreds of thousands dotted many of the same landscapes where their present-day descendants now loom. Nearly every farmyard had its own spindly device atop a steel tower, pumping water and powering lamps. Those windmills, in their time, stood for the settlers\u2019 proud dominion over nature, for their self-sufficiency and for the Yankee ingenuity that produced something from nothing, literally from thin air. Dozens of manufacturers competed for customers, hawking machines whose brand names formed a kind of American poetry: Buckeye, Climax, Daisy, Dandy, OK, Tip Top, Whizz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; I wonder whether the turbines of our own century may come to stand for newer forms of self-sufficiency, less individual than national. Rising from the land in shapes as gracile as Brancusi sculptures, they seem to inhabit a middle ground between technology and nature \u2014 perfect emblems, perhaps, of a conflicted culture that cherishes its iPhones and organic gardens in equal measure. Maybe, too, they will still stand for the old American dream of snatching something from thin air: a future without sacrifice, and liberty as boundless as the sky.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Goodheart&#8217;s piece is accompanied by a few photographs from Mitch Epstein&#8217;s forthcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchepstein.net\/work\/americanpower\/index.html\">American Power<\/a>, which &#8220;<span class=\"text\">examines how energy is produced and used in the American landscape.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Goodheart mulls over the place of the wind turbine in the American landscape: Just a century ago, however, windmills by the hundreds of thousands dotted many of the same landscapes where their present-day descendants now loom. Nearly every farmyard had its own spindly device atop a steel tower, pumping water and powering lamps. Those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[166,852,848,842],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-america","tag-energy","tag-infrastructure","tag-landscape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}