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ivan burit
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ivan burit
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 Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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While sitting on our sea wall in jaywick,
along with hundreds of others,
waiting for the next airshow exhibit to arrive,
i looked at "our" working wind turbines merrily going round and round in the wind.
It was then that i thought about low level aircraft.
Gunfleet Sands windfarm is roughly 6 miles out to sea, and although the tip hight at max rotation is imense, how do low level flight air craft deal with the turbines in poor visibility.
We know that the rotor tips at there lowest point are high enough for most smaller craft to pass through without fear of decapitation to either crew or craft, but its higher up that intrigues me. |
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ivan burit
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Well over a month on,
and activity has hotted up out on Gunfleet Sands.
" long legged barges" are busy, along with the supply vessels.
I`ve noticed that at least two working turbines have nice cherry red warning lights on them.
I wonder if the local to Herne Bay`s wind turbine farm residents can see ours just as we can see theirs? |
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amenity2
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We can see the turbines twirling from Harwich looking over the Naze peninsula.
I bet the folk using the Tag Mahal did not expect to see the mills so clearly? |
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Nikadi
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I've heard that the turbines aren't actually producing electricity as they've been fitted improperly, is this true? |
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ivan burit
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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| amenity2 wrote: | We can see the turbines twirling from Harwich looking over the Naze peninsula.
I bet the folk using the Tag Mahal did not expect to see the mills so clearly? |
ha..ha..ha..
sorry Amenity, i missed this post.
Of course your right, the big poobars never expected to be soiled that much, the actual sight of windfarms...lol
Well Nikadi, from where i look, even on calm days like yesterday, there was afew turbines still generating.
They of course are still fitting up the last new turbines by means of self lifting barges moored next to the yellow part submerged stubs, on top of these, the complex job of building the tall turbine suport leg on which sits the fully controllable turbine power producing heads.
Maybe i have more time to view all these operations Nikadi, but also have promo dvd`s from A`ON |
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amenity2
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| Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:12 am Post subject: |
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| Nikadi wrote: | | I've heard that the turbines aren't actually producing electricity as they've been fitted improperly, is this true? |
I suppose just 'cos their twirling away doesn't mean their producing juice does it?
Anybody know the answer to Nikadi's question? |
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ivan burit
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| Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:36 am Post subject: |
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| Very valid point though. |
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