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Originally Posted by giovanni sasso
are there many wind turbines and/or natural gas drilling rigs in this area?
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Not really, at least not any grand scale. There are no wind turbines in the Hill Country that I know of. The Hill Country isn't really a windy place, so they don't do very well there. Really the only places in Texas where you find them are along the coast. There's a large wind farm near Corpus Christi. I've seen a few lone ones west of Houston, but they may have been on private property for private use. You can also find them in places in West Texas. There's supposedly a big wind farm near Abilene, and they even manufacture them there.
As for oil & gas drilling. I know there's a gas rig in La Grange, but La Grange isn't in the Hill Country, it's about half way between Austin and Houston. Most of what you'll see in the Hill Country are maybe a few oil rigs (pumpers) here and there on private property. I've seen some along the highway on the way to Boerne, Texas. You'll also see them along the coast. The most visible natural gas rigs you'll find are in the panhandle. The Texas panhandle north of Lubbock past Amarillo and beyond contains huge helium reserves. It's supposedly the largest helium reserve in the US. I remember going through there at night and seeing all these flashing lights off in the distance. Each one was a rig about the size of a car. There's supposed to be over a billion cubic feet of it there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve