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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