America is a big diverse land, it has prime locations for basically every type of energy production and if everyone got on the same page in government we could probably make massive strides in it by investing in all of them.
But instead we do things like Dam up the Colorado River to ship it off to California to prevent them from literally dying based on some ancient agreement, and let all that hydropower go to waste.
It is definitely overwhelmingly Germans/Prussians (as Kansas has a similar climate and geography to eastern Germany, almost 35% of the state has this lineage). But there was/are sizable amounts of Swedes, Dutch, Irish, English, and French. And in recent years, it is a lot of Mexicans, Guatemalans, and Vietnamese.
Another interesting one to note is the so called "Exodusters" communities, where were founded by former slaves from the South who didnt believe the US Governments claims of "40 acres and a mule", and were brought to better land by other blacks like Booker T. Washington to start building new communities in new land doing what they knew how to do already until they could build themselves up.
I suppose being literally flatter than a pancake makes Kansas actually ideal for wind turbines.
America is a big diverse land, it has prime locations for basically every type of energy production and if everyone got on the same page in government we could probably make massive strides in it by investing in all of them.
But instead we do things like Dam up the Colorado River to ship it off to California to prevent them from literally dying based on some ancient agreement, and let all that hydropower go to waste.
We have a tradition of wind power dating back to our founding for a reason.
Which is why there is also a surprising amount of Dutch-designed mills dating back to the 1800's here.
Yup, that makes perfect sense. Wasn't it also the settlement of a large number of Germans?
It is definitely overwhelmingly Germans/Prussians (as Kansas has a similar climate and geography to eastern Germany, almost 35% of the state has this lineage). But there was/are sizable amounts of Swedes, Dutch, Irish, English, and French. And in recent years, it is a lot of Mexicans, Guatemalans, and Vietnamese.
Another interesting one to note is the so called "Exodusters" communities, where were founded by former slaves from the South who didnt believe the US Governments claims of "40 acres and a mule", and were brought to better land by other blacks like Booker T. Washington to start building new communities in new land doing what they knew how to do already until they could build themselves up.
Stop making me want to move to Kansas.
That history all sounds great except for the recent events.