On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:52:33 -0000, Andrew Mawson wrote in :
I barely recognise that -- we were building the Big Red Shed in '80 so that helps. Most of the coloured buildings are new, as is the wind turbine[1]. And it's not chilly, it's -7 C -- that's nearly shorts-'n'- shirts weather after nine months at -25.
[1] Went to a talk about renewable energy last week. In order to avoid unreliable gearboxes, wind turbines now use PM generators and will be using high-temperature superconductor coils by 2010, liquid-helium cooled. I guess that'd be easier to do at Mawson!