Oil rig wind farms? Sounds promising, and at least it's nice to see
some reuse here and there. I wonder what the birds will think?
The flower of sustainable energy is blooming in oil country. Get ready for the Great Texas Wind Rush..
.. The key was to take advantage of existing oil-industry infrastructure. To save the expense of designing and building specialized offshore wind equipment, they would mount conventional windmills on decommissioned oil platforms. Hurricanes could be a problem, so they decided to outfit their windmills with hydraulic lifts scavenged from oil-industry machinery; the system would lower the turbines in the event of a squall.