For we who have known the South Texas skyline for many years it is almost like being in another country, or on another planet. We are used to the blackland for miles in fall and winter and the cotton, grain, and corn in early spring and summer. Now amid those field of green are these giant turbines reaching to the sky. Most of them are a ghostly white causing the three blades to virtually disappear on a cloudy day. They are the energy wave of the present and future. The Taft field is scheduled to have more than a hundred. That is small compared to some in Texas. The Roscoe Farm has 627 turbines. Capricorn has 662. Horse Hollow near Sweetwater has 585. In fact, there are more wind farms in Texas than anywhere in the country. It is a boon for land owners and has brought jobs and workers to some small towns that needed some economic boost.There are several companies making this equipment. The installations call for tons of concrete and giant cranes that can lift the blades to the sky. Roads are built and electric lines run about. It is really big business. Not all landowners have bought into the project, but crop disasters of the last two years probably helped some to lease land and take the easy money. Of course, the threat of crop-destroying hurricanes and floods always loom over the fields.
So, these giant ghosts stand as silent testimony to the harnessing possibilities of wind. The Dutch learned of it long ago. Ranchers have relied on the water-pumping windmills to supply their cattle. I remember making a tiny windmill in grade school with a straight pin and stick and paper.
Men can produce and control the activity of the wind generators. They are, however, absolutely helpless in controlling the wind. That is in Divine Hands. "Without warning a furious storm came up on the lake so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. The disciples went and woke Him saying, "Lord, save us! We are going to drown!" He replied, "You of little faith. Why are you afraid?" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves and it was completely calm. The men were amazed and asked, "What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!"
