Course Documents -> Week 5 -> Google Earth Exercise
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  1. 41 36 40 -106 12 31

    a) Measure the separation between the wind turbines
    b) count how many turbines there are per "leg"
    c) estimate the total number of turbines in this general area

  2. 37 44 13 -121 38 38

    a) Measure the separation between the wind turbines
    b) count how many turbines there are per "leg"
    c) estimate the total number of turbines in this general area

  3. 48 29 03 -109 10 50

    Huge wind resource here but no infrastructure:

    a) Measure the distances from here to the nearest US highways (2 and 87).
    b) See if you can find any transmission line infrastructure within this general region; if so, list the coordinates