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sodes

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Joined: 26/07/2006
Location: Australia
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Posted: 10:36am 07 Feb 2007
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HI all i was recently on hols down at Portland Vic and noticed these two massive turbine blades sitting in a landforming yard, didn't know what they were for a few seconds due to the sheer size, mum thought they jumbo jet wings! They are 29 metres long weigh around 8 tons and are made of fibreglass. The rotor wieght combined 30 tons the gen nacelle wieghs 50 tons and the 50m high tubular steel tower wieghs around 80 ton. They are presumably destined for the nearby Codrington/Yambuk wind farm where there are 34 1.5 MW turbines. Having never seen turbines or a windfarm of that size before i was pretty inspired. Quite amazing to see these things in action up close! I dont know why people kick up a stink about the look of them, I reckon they look better and much more exciting than a coal fired power station!


Edited by Gizmo 2007-02-08
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Gizmo

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Joined: 05/06/2004
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Posted: 12:05pm 07 Feb 2007
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Hi sodes.

Hope you dont mind but I shrunk those pictures a little.

I visited Portland about 3 years ago and saw the same wind turbines, first time I ever saw a wind farm. I was there in the middle of winter and I remember it was very cold and very windy.

Glenn
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wind-pirate

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Joined: 01/02/2007
Location: Canada
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Posted: 02:39am 08 Feb 2007
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If you think coal fired power station looks bad. You
should see the mess left by the minning to feed that monster.
THE Pirate.
stealing wind & solar energy is fun
 
sodes

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Posted: 08:44pm 10 Feb 2007
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Yeah thanks for shrinking the pictures Gizmo much neater mate! I just wonder to what degree u would scale one of those turbines down to comfortably run one household?
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