The view from the top
A development opportunity?

I live among the biggest concentration of wind farms in Australia. I've visited all of them and admired the glorious views from the tops of the ridges on which the turbines have been built.

Turbine towers are routinely being built up to 160 meters tall. The view from the top of such a tower, on top of the already high ridge would be wonderful

It seems to me that there is a development opportunity here; maybe a science-centre based around renewable energy (the power of the future) on top of the ridge, a restaurant and an adjacent turbine tower with a viewing station on top instead of a turbine.

Other possibilities would be a convention centre and/or retreat. The science centre could include wind and solar power, pumped hydro and battery power storage, clean hydrogen production, ammonia from renewables, energy export. With the right innovative planning it could be an international attraction. The challenge, of course, is that the wind farms are not close to a major city and airport.

In the photos below I was concentrating mainly on the wind farms rather than the views from the wind farms (wind farms are something of an obsession to me). The wind farm photos were all taken with a drone using a very wide-angle lens so they don't show distant features at all well.