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From the early Bonus and Nordtanks 65 kW from the rush
period, to advanced medium-sized Vestas machines around
200 kW of the late 1980s, the Tehachapi Pass still today gives a
strong impression of the turbulent and dynamic development
the wind industry has gone through. Drivers using Interstate 10
starting in Los Angeles will be surrounded by some thousands of
Micons, Vestas, Nordtanks and other 1980s turbines when heading
for the city of Palm Springs in the San Gorgonio area.
But the development of wind turbines was always of fast
nature and did not cease with the mid-1980s crisis. The ad ...