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- inactive, on 08/16/2008, -1/+18it appears size does matter!
- tbhurst, on 08/17/2008, -1/+16Vestas is one of those companies that is riding-out this economic storm quite well.
- MrSlav, on 08/17/2008, -1/+7Just imagine how big the whole thing is gonna be!
- NuclearIsShit, on 08/17/2008, -1/+6Proof that going green can be good for business.
Here is another story about Vestas orders increasing by 67%.
http://digg.com/environment/Wind_Turbine_Maker_See ... - sorenchr, on 08/17/2008, -1/+4Long live Denmark!
- AnotherCanadian, on 08/17/2008, -3/+6I'm waiting for a turbine so large that it alters earth's speed of rotation
- Nintendesert, on 08/17/2008, -1/+3...but not to you.
- hiPpymIck, on 08/17/2008, -0/+2the amount of energy you can potentially extract
depends on the square of the length of the turbine
because the surface area it presents to the wind is Pi r *squared*
so doubling the length of a turbine quadruples the power etc
you get much more energy per metre of length
so bigger is always better - dhughes, on 08/17/2008, -0/+2 The Arabs invented windmills...probably because they also invented a lot of the math we use.
- sorenchr, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2Oh yeah? Well my dad can beat up your dad
- GiJoeBob, on 08/17/2008, -0/+2Here is a recent article
http://www.oaoa.com/articles/wind_20078___article. ... - Ramble, on 08/17/2008, -1/+2If anyone is curious, the Isle of Wight is just off the bottom of Britain.
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1Dammit dude my blade is only 4 inches.
- changedmind, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1I saw a whole convoy of these a few weeks ago in East Texas. They must have been pretty close to the 44m long described here. Not sure where they were headed though.
- GiJoeBob, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1Yeah, they come through here all the time. Pickens has one of his big wind farms over near Big Springs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitf/711140812/in/set ... - inactive, on 12/18/2008, -0/+1
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My Dad was testing government wind turbines years ago. They'd build one that was something like two football fields tall with a wing span of about one football field. Forgive the field ratio here, my dad loves the sport and I can imagine him running the length of these things just to demonstrate the size of them. Anyway they got this thing started and the engineers got to work. Seven rotations a minute, the blade velocity was so powerful that if actually broke off it could project itself hundreds of feet and stick itself into the ground, engineers must love this stuff, and then something they weren't expecting. They get a report from a local that recently a woman's china dishes were suddenly pushing themselves off the display shelf in her kitchen. Confused and upset, and probably the reason the story traveled so quickly, she was under the assumption that a ghost was responsible for the destruction. Turns out that when the blades passed the tower the air, being forced between the two objects, created low frequency which could be measured two miles away. The vibration was pushing the unsuspecting dishes off the shelf.
http://cleansecolonnow.info - inactive, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1That's what she said
- ngresonance, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1Except that...
turbines *do* kill birds,
they *do* ruin landscapes,
and they *do* create other legitimate concerns for the people who live near them.
Just because someone doesn't support wind turbines doesn't mean they're in Big Oil's pocket. - cgruber, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1They built something like 100 of those in the last 6 months Eastern Wisconsin where I live. Some of them are Vestas. Quite the sight at night with each one having a tower light flashing.
- stonewall123, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1Actually the US has been a pretty big user of wind in the past several years. Per capita we have a little ways to go but that is changing rapidly and we actually rank reasonably well in terms of wind use.
http://www.livescience.com/environment/080723-us-w ... - apache2, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1two football fields tall, with a wingspan of one football field? somethings not adding up
- macgecko, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1IMHO I think wind power is fantastic. However I do wish that people would stop demonizing atomic power its cheap and cleaner then coal (yes long term storage needed for the waste) there is room for multiple solutions and in fact the world will need them all soon enough. Because there are times when the wind does not blow and the sun does not shine. Options are good to have...
- yingjai, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1they probably meant diameter and not radius
- stonewall123, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1Picken's name seems to crop up alot in digg but as the video posted above its worth noting that some of the criticisms of the so-called Pickens plan are valid. On the one hand he has a very positive view of the wind energy industry and his credentials as a money making oil baron are helpful in bringing some of the non-believer's in positions of power to take wind more seriously. On the other hand his plan calls for alot of drilling offshore and Alaska, it calls for a paradigm shift to natural gas for cars which will slow the necessary transition to all electric cars and his not so publicized oil rights agenda is likely an environmental disaster and a personal rights disaster too. The associated eminent domain issues have become pretty ridiculous recently. Growing up I always believed that your land was yours. Now your land is yours until some developer wants it. This past decade things have really changed in that regard. Ultimately increased wind power will happen with or without him and we could probably do without all the extra baggage. He is only doing it for the $$ and is on record stating this which is fine because with the lucrative tax benefits (provided that this gets renewed) and profit as the motivation if he doesn't do it someone else will.
- commentbot, on 08/17/2008, -1/+1Enlarge your W1ND TURB1N3.
- Caliente, on 08/17/2008, -1/+1great stuff Vestas. Wind power is the next big thing in large scale energy projects and is finally reaching economies of scale with traditional fossil fuel based sources. Wind will not replace the grid, but complement and reduce the load on current gas/coal/diesel fired turbine technology.
- DeceasedVirus, on 08/17/2008, -1/+1ohh sorry heres a link to zaproots video on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70HFEHB6dag - inactive, on 08/17/2008, -2/+2"OMG THINK OF THE BIRDIES!!!!!"
"Them thar wind-mills make some kinda radee-ashins or somethin"
"THEYRE UGLY AND I WANT THEM OUT OF MY BACKYARD"
"Wind power is dirty, I know this because I have 3 Masters degrees in engineering and Exxon Mobil told me so." - DeceasedVirus, on 08/17/2008, -1/+1Pickens in a joke.
See Zaproots Episode #48 through youtube or iTunes Video Podcast - simcoi, on 08/18/2008, -0/+0yeah well, tis part story. The point is the low frequency levels of these giants is not something to mess with.
- dhughes, on 08/17/2008, -1/+1 Here is the wind test site north of where I live, some of the photos show just how big some of the new carbon fiber monsters are, some are 100m (300 feet) tall.
http://www.weican.ca/ - simcoi, on 08/17/2008, -1/+0My Dad was testing government wind turbines years ago. They'd build one that was something like two football fields tall with a wing span of about one football field. Forgive the field ratio here, my dad loves the sport and I can imagine him running the length of these things just to demonstrate the size of them. Anyway they got this thing started and the engineers got to work. Seven rotations a minute, the blade velocity was so powerful that if actually broke off it could project itself hundreds of feet and stick itself into the ground, engineers must love this stuff, and then something they weren't expecting. They get a report from a local that recently a woman's china dishes were suddenly pushing themselves off the display shelf in her kitchen. Confused and upset, and probably the reason the story traveled so quickly, she was under the assumption that a ghost was responsible for the destruction. Turns out that when the blades passed the tower the air, being forced between the two objects, created low frequency which could be measured two miles away. The vibration was pushing the unsuspecting dishes off the shelf.
- FUR10N, on 08/17/2008, -3/+2It's so big...
..that's what she said - hitokiri808, on 08/17/2008, -3/+1We need some wind turbines like that in the US.
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