Travel 300 feet into the sky with the photographer philip_nyc, whose images capture wind-turbine technicians at work.
The Pinnacle wind-power plant extends for roughly four miles in the northeastern corner of West Virginia. Twenty-three turbines dot the spine of the Appalachians, irregularly spaced along the mountain ridges. The towers, supplied by Siemens Gamesa, rise three hundred feet, looking like giant pinwheels amid a rolling landscape of small towns and windy roads. The rotating blades can be seen from Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Three hundred feet above the ground, two Pinnacle workers, Tyler Simmons and Isaiah Smith , inspect the inside of a wind turbine. Cleanliness is essential for such a delicate apparatus. Each turbine blade spins up to sixteen times a minute. Pinnacle turbines dot the skyline in Keyser, West Virginia, where, according to Andrew Cosner, a twenty-one-year-old technician, some residents remain hostile to the new wind farm: “They say it ruins the landscape and it’s ugly.”Kisamore notes that, from the top of a tower, you can “see how small the cars are.”
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