Cool sighting [RE-wrenches]
Brad Bassett
bsbassett at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 29 15:18:35 PDT 2003
Back in the 80's Boeing made a few really humongeous wind turbines
installed in the Columbia Gorge. I think the blades were well over 300
ft long each. I saw one of the blades going down the freeway through
Olympia with a truck tractor in front, and the back end of the blade had
it's own little manned steerable trailer under it. It looked really
cramped in that trailer for the 4 hour ride it must have been from the
factory to the site.
I think there were three of these monstrosities installed and I remember
that none of them was ever taken to full power because the main shaft
cracked on them at partial power. They must have been taken down at some
point, and I'll bet they didn't show up at the Boeing Surplus retail
store! (Which you must go to if you're ever in Seattle).
Brad
matthew tritt wrote:
>
> What's also interesting about the new 1.5 megawatt turbines is that
> their
> wings (blades) are so big (120' plus) that they can't be transported
> except
> on a very few major highways by special, middle of the night, permit.
> The
> REALLY big ones (3 mW) that are being installed offshore in Europe, are
> so
> big they can only be moved by sea and air.
>
Brad Bassett
Schott Applied Power
Tumwater, WA office
bsbassett at earthlink.net
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