on the road | Industry, Nature and History

My road trip has began, leaving Manhattan crossing the Lincoln Tunnel and adventuring through industrial landscapes, many resembling archeological sites: the New Jersey Pulaski skyway, Kearney, finally crossing the Pennsylvania border and arriving to the Bethlehem Steelstacks ruins. Here I encounter a very meaningful quoteL

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For

knowledge is limited to what we know and understand 

while imagination embraces the entire world, and all 

there will be to know and understand.

-Albert Einstein      

                                         

The Bethlehem steelscape turns into green rolling hills often covered by cornfields crossing the Allegheny Mountains, part of the Appalachian Range whose homonymous trail I encounter in Port Clinton.
I was not familiar with the utterly beauty of rural Pennsylvania, whose inspiring natural scenes are crossed by history in the state portion of the Lincoln Highway (Route 30).

Memorial Fountain (1878) in the main square of Chambersburg (founded in 1734) was dedicated to  the Civil War soldiers

Eon Stony Creek Wind Farm

camminando | Wind Power in Massachusetts

Anticipating the hurricane I am organizing photos, from my summer walkabouts —which did not cover a large geographic area, although quite concentrated from a cultural standpoint.
Approaching the Mohawk trail, a quite interesting view in the Berkshires was a wind farm —seen here from Hancock Road.

And below an aerial view of the wind farm from http://www.bing.com/maps/

Excerpts from the conceptual multimedia project

“Axes Mundi: Perceptions and Understanding of Places as Intersections of Space, Time and Culture"

camminando | Wind, Water and Sun in Gaspesie

Gaspesie offers to the visitors not only natural beauty of the landscape but also invite to reflect of how nature and mankind can collaborate to produce sustainable renewable energy.

The wind farm of Éole Cap-Chat harmoniously situated in agricultural land also features the highest vertical-axis turbine in the world; quoting the wind farm web site:

"Wind energy is one of the cleanest sources of energy in existence. Because it replaces other sources of energy, it contributes in an extraordinary way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Le Nordais is able to eliminate 250 000 of CO₂ annually. Furthermore, wind energy is simple to exploit and its production costs are constantly dropping. So many advantages encourage more and more countries to choose wind energy to the detriment of polluting sources of energy.

The energy produced is sold to Hydro-Quebec, a government corporation, according to a 25-year contract. The energy transferred from the windmill park to the public electricity network can supply the equivalent of 10 000 Quebec residences with electricity. In a temperate climate, Le Nordais could satisfy the energy needs of nearly 50 000 homes."

A lesson to be learned across the border!