I had the great fortune to drive to Tehachapi on a business trip to visit a wind farm facility there.  The Tehachapi area is home to several wind farms (like Palm Springs), which have become the dominant landscape feature.

I spent the day touring a wind farm up close.  The facility I visited had several different generations of wind machines - older, smaller, shorter, noisy, and fast-spinning wind turbine generators (WTGs) and brand new, large, quiet, taller, and gracefully slow-spinning machines.  The scale of these machines is truly epic.  The photo to the right shows our SUV parked next to a WTG tower.  These towers also provide access to the equipment above, and I was lucky enough to get a photo inside the tower looking up.

Tehachapi is a quaint old fashioned little town.  Blink and you miss it sort of thing.  Later we drove by a solar energy generating station.  I got a photo (above).