Cool sighting [RE-wrenches]

[matthew tritt]

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.

I recently completed a consulting job for a large turbine company that
intends to install a new generation 2.5 mW turbine in either Lompoc or out
in the desert. It has a rotor diameter of 300"! The biggest land based
turbine in North America.

Matt T
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Brooks" <billb at endecon.com>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 7:58 AM
Subject: RE: Cool sighting [RE-wrenches]


> SMUD is also in mid-construction on a large wind project near Rio Vista.
>
> Bill.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: matthew tritt [mailto:solarone at charter.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 7:15 AM
> To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> Subject: Re: Cool sighting [RE-wrenches]
>
>
> William,
>
> Columbia River Gorge more than likely.
>
> Matt T
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Miller" <wrmiller at slonet.org>
> To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 11:46 PM
> Subject: Cool sighting [RE-wrenches]
>
>
> > Friends:
> >
> > Sunday night, my wife and son were out of town and my helper was feeling
> > down, so to cheer him up, I offered to buy dinner.  One of my favorite
> > restaurants is near the Amtrak station in San Luis Obispo.  Freights
stop
> > there for crew changes, and I saw the most unusual looking freight load
on
> > a train there.  Mike and I walked closer to try and figure out what it
> was.
> >  We saw 10 of these huge, rounded white things, about two stories tall,
> > slightly wider than a flat car and as long.  Each of these objects was
> > connected together with a power cord connected to a GE Rents generator
> with
> > an outboard fuel tank.  Further on down the train were some huge
shipping
> > containers with what looked like huge airplane propellers inside.  At
this
> > time we guessed it was a load of 10 huge wind generators.  This was the
> > longest and weirdest train load I have ever seen.
> >
> > I have a six year old son who is a train fanatic, so I have become one
> too.
> >  The best part of seeing this train, even above the excitement of seeing
> > all these new, huge wind generators, was the last car on the train.  As
if
> > from out of the past, came a little red caboose.  Apparently this load
was
> > so awkward and valuable that it merited a caboose so the conductor could
> > monitor the load!
> >
> > The wind generators are made by Vestas.  Anyone know where these are
> going?
> >  The were northbound out of San Luis Obispo.
> >
> > William Miller
> >
> >
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