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World's Largest Wind Turbine
PeteJones writes "'Construction work on the REpower 5M was successfully completed last night with the installation of the rotor. Thus the main work on the prototype of the 5-megawatt, world's largest wind turbine has finally been completed.' The pictures are quite impressive. With 3 18-ton rotor blades pumping out 5 MW I wonder if my neighbours would mind one in my backyard?"
It slices! It dices! It makes julienne fries!
...they could create a politician and run for public office. The amount of hot air produced would give it an insurmountable advantage.
It should get plenty of hot air to spin it,
That'd reall blow.
With 3 18-ton rotor blades pumping out 5 MW I wonder if my neighbours would mind one in my backyard?
This is Joe from down the street.
Please.. just please, stay in your mother's basement, you creep.
Convert to mph or your favorite units at will.
"I believe I read that it will run with winds of between 7.82927702 mph and 55.9234073 mph. With a nominal wind of 29.0801718 mph."
Some nerd is thinking, "where can I get THAT kind of power for my beanie....."
Click here or a puppy gets stomped!
I for one, hail our new significant-digit cognizant overlords.
If anything, those windmills will bring back more "natural" conditions.
Minus the part with whirling steel blades that regularly vivisect birds and flying mammals you mean?
-- No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats, approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.
v(z) = v0 ln(z/z0 )/ln(z1 /z0 )
Here v0, z0 and z1 are constants. Here is a nice site about windmill engineering.
I don't know... how many politicians do you have?
"Was it a millionaire who said 'Imagine No Posessions?'" -- Elvis Costello
But how are oil exec and the politicians they buy supposed to make a decent living? Think of their children!
Treehugger? Treehugger... Treehugger!
Wouldn't this produce smarter birds though? I mean, if the landscape were plastered with windmills, all the stupid birds would die out after a few generations, resulting in a new species of hyper-intelligent birds that would take over the world and start a fast food franchise called Kentucky Fried Human!!1!!
Did you know you can fertilize your lawn with used motor oil?
If I can figure out a way to blow it over the mobo - my cooling problems are OVER !!!
*for now*
21045.09663 to 78167.5018 furlongs/fortnight
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
The key to a sensible energy future is to not be fanatical for/against any one source, but to exploit them all where and how it makes sense.
Yeah, human furnaces are really being ignored here.
When I die I want to be contributed to the energy grid.
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
Because walls make very poor windmills?
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.