Wind turbines - can be DIY made?

[tinnews]

In that case they're not really "commercial wind companies" are they!?

[Bob Eager]

I actually like the look of them. But not 30 of them planted in front of me!

[Adrian]

Bob Eager ( [e-mail]) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

There's a word for that... Five letters, begins with an "N"...

[Andy Hall]

Yes there is.

Anybody advocating these monstrosities should have them installed in their back yard.

[Guy King]

The message from Matt contains these words:

But only for a few minutes.

[Bob Eager]

I'd be happy with one. Aesthetically quite nice. 30 are just clutter...!

The substation is way back from the sea. It's been there many years, but blended in fairly well. The additions to service that lot have made it a bit of a blot, too...

[Guy King]

The message from Andy Hall contains these words:

I rather like them. But then I thought the Allegro estate was a nice looking car.

[Andy Hall]

Wasn't that the one that looked like a hearse?

[Guy King]

The message from Andy Hall contains these words:

No, that was the Citroën DS estate, possibly the ugliest car ever made. Which considering how utterly gorgeous the saloon looked was quite a feat.

[Adrian]

Guy King ( [e-mail]) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Friend of mine styled the rear end of that...

[Adrian]

Andy Hall ( [e-mail]) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Gladly. Unfortunately, my back yard is neither big enough nor windy enough.

[Dave Liquorice]

No he's not. 2MW rated wind turbines are big, *very* big. As a guide take a Jumbo jet stick an axle through the center point and mount it on the top of a pole. Most land based wind farms in this country are using turbines 1/2 to 1/3 this size.

[Guy King]

The message from Adrian contains these words:

Well tell him from me that I liked it. Jaunty upswept look with clean lines. If you lost the bumper it wasn't far off current styles.

[Andy Hall]

[Andy Hall]

Geez.... I hadn't realised that the offshore ones were this enormous.

Considering that one can fit a 600MW generator into a much smaller space it makes the whole thing even more ridiculous.

[Frank Erskine]

A hearse for midgets maybe...

:-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Me2. In fact we have one. Dungeness 'B'. OK its 40 miles way, but whats

40 miles in a reactor meltdown?

Its a tad ugly from Dunwich, but not arf so ugly as te 'sculptures' they are proposing to drop in the sea offshore.

[The Natural Philosopher]

For once I agree. I went down a coal mine once, and reckoned that anyone working at the face deserved £100k a year. Which made coal completely uneconomic.

OK if you can open cast it in bloody great buckets, but digging out 2ft high seams 2 miles underground and 5 miles from the pit head shaft is a mugs game.

[The Natural Philosopher]

There are no large losses from centralised systems.

There are large losses and cost negatives from small scale ones of course.

Youy cannot remember what isn't a fact...as a fact. Or can you?

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[The Natural Philosopher]

Well I have seen a wind farm, and the area it took up to the power it generated was bloody HUGE, and although it wasn't noisy, it was bloody ugly, and I agree so are pylons and comms towers. I'd like to see then end of them too.