altamont

One of the worst commutes in Northern California is the Altamont Pass, which Interstate 580 traverses.

The Altamont wind farm on hugely expensive Bay Area real estate can power under 50,000 homes.

I believe that theory of pure bliss and self-regulating society was finally disproven at the Altamont Free Concert[1].

Because the Altamont Pass isn't enough of a parking lot during the commute.

Really you are looking at Antioch/Concord up 680 or over the Altamont on 580 to Tracy if you want to get significantly more affordable.

Probably the best example of this is the Altamont Pass wind farm.

There is tons of land to the east of the Altamont pass that doesn’t have any homes on it, nor any wind farms there.

They (well, Tim League and friends) sold to Altamont first [^0].

Stockton already has the Altamont Commuter Express line to San Jose.

Those from California will probably be familiar with the Altamont and Tehachapi pass windfarms, both on major highways east of the SF and LA Metro areas respectively.

Currently one of the notably large wind farms being operated is in the Altamont Pass in California which also happens to be the preferred spawning site for golden eagles.

In practice, Altamont Pass is still one of the largest concentrations of wind turbines in the world, with a capacity of 576 megawatts, producing about 125MW on average and 1.1 terawatt-hours yearly.

I asked it about the “Altamont Free Concert” (exact name of Wikipedia article), and it’s been a while since I’ve seen an hallucination this rich.

The best part is how you won't see a single solitary wind turbine in the "bay area" proper, but as soon as you start heading up Altamont on I-580, BAM everywhere.

If you had 100,000 homes built on Altamont instead of wind farms that would generate a lot more tax revenue (and jobs and obviously homes) than the "savings" you would get from a wind farm.

The biggest American wind farm (Altamont Pass) is right next to Silicon Valley in the Bay Area.

Altamont is faster, involves less travel through the Santa Clara County suburbs, is faster to Sacramento, and gives us a second bay rail crossing.

The mask-less account was refreshing, the only counter-weight to flower-power I knew about was Altamont, was getting heavy Hunter S.