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 Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:15 pm Post subject: Re: Wind turbine's up! |
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| HKE wrote: | | The turbine has been color-coordinated to blend into the local environment. |
Yeah, you can hardly notice the 70-metre high bright white tower and props. It'll be almost invisible against the snow.
And it seems a very bad idea to even try to camouflage it, considering that we don't want any aircraft or birds to run into it. |
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zep
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| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Spot the difference: view from my roof before and after. I know which I prefer. |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| zep wrote: | | Spot the difference: view from my roof before and after. I know which I prefer. |
Looks a bit like a Martian tripod stalking over the hill.
Your landlord will probably use it as an excuse to increase the rent. |
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Lamma-Gung
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 1:31 am Post subject: |
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Nice shots!
Here's an extreme zoom-in of your 2nd shot, which I've cut out from HK Electric's press release photos.
That hole looks a bit like a bird's nest inside a hollow tree, no?
The two orange-chested, white-crested creatures seem to live there? Is the third one the same species, maybe a subspecies?
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zep
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe it's a nesting hole for the Vertiginous Flycatcher (Muscicapa dizziensis)- HKE trying to prove their eco-friendly credentials again. |
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I'd like to take credit for the close up picture but it wasn't me. I own a Canon ixus with crap digital zoom. This is a HK Electric handout pic, those guys can afford long lenses.   
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, my mistake. I've confused your photos in the SCMP wind turbine story with the ones I've received from HKE.
But that great diagram in last Sunday's SCMP of the inner workings of the wind turbine is yours!
So we can ask you loads of technical questions, can we? 
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Lamma-Gung
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:39 am Post subject: Nacelle |
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| Down the deli wrote: | | ...why they call it a nacelle rather than machine housing. |
Well, maybe they're Star Trekkers...
The two engines at the top back of the Starship Enterprise were called nacelles as well and the shape was very similar to the wind turbine "nacelle".
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:50 am Post subject: |
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Nacelle is a real word, (unlike, say, "phaser")
| Oxford Dictionary wrote: | nacelle n. L15. [Fr. f. late L navicella dim. of L navis ship.]
1 A small boat. rare. Only in L15.
2 The basket or car of a balloon or airship. E20.
3 Orig., the cockpit of an aeroplane. Now, a streamlined bulge on an aircraft's wing or fuselage enclosing an engine etc. E20.
4 A similarly shaped structure on or in a motor vehicle. M20. |
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| The red light was installed on the top of the windmill tower yesterday. |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 2:07 pm Post subject: Re: Nickname? |
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| Lamma-Gung wrote: | | We also need a nickname for this project! Every Lamma project needs a nickname! Any ideas? |
Quixotine
The Quixotic Guillotine.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 2:20 pm Post subject: Re: Nickname? |
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| pit wrote: | | Quixotine .... The Quixotic Guillotine. |
Ya gotta love it! 
(BTW, "quixotine.com" is an available domain name)
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:15 pm Post subject: Viva la Quixotine! |
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I like it! Short and sweet, very clever and literary-minded with its mix of French and Spanish, kind of sophisticated, but with a very cynical edge (literally).
A rotating guillotine! The French revolution would have loved it, especially as the guillotine was initially invented to make their mass killings faster and more efficient. Let's hope this won't happen to our birdlife...
But who'll be Lamma's Don Quixote storming the windmill-on-the-hill? Guy Quixote?
But I got kind of used to calling it "Magical Spinney Thing", even though I didn't know at first what it meant.
Somebody reported the Quixotine rotating yesterday, so it's already going into the test phase? Viva la Quixotine!
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:34 pm Post subject: Re: Viva la Quixotine! |
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| Lamma-Gung wrote: | | Somebody reported the Quixotine rotating yesterday, so it's already going into the test phase? |
I suspect they were just checking the blades one at a time, and sharpening them to the peak of perfection.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 7:01 pm Post subject: from www.ConnectedTraveler.com |
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| Oliver wrote: | HKE and the government regulators are behaving as if noone in the whole world has ever built a wind turbine before!!! (Ooh, we must be careful!)
Here they are with one poky 800kW (if that) turbine while the Danes are now busy building offshore and onshore wind farms with dozens and dozens of 6MW (8x more powerful) turbines hooked straight into the grid and expected to produce 10% of their national demand soon.
It certainly looks like a public relations exercise from here. It is a toe clipping’s-length step in the right direction, while at the same time they take the long jump in the opposite direction by building that horrible extra chimney and generators next to our lovely local coal heaps.
Now let us all bow our heads and say the SAR Prayer:
Our landfill dug from mountains
Hollowed be thy borrow areas.
May our jobs and positions remain carved in stone
And do those things the way we always have done them.
We pray to the white elephant that it may be our savior
In times of trouble.
We will ignore simple straightforward solutions regardless of temptation.
Complicate, Resist, Disseminate and Obfuscate.
For ever and ever.
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To illustrate Oliver's point about windmills being commonplace in other parts of the world, here's a photo shot by my friend Russell Johnson who edits the excellent travel site/blog/podcast/radio channel/video site www.ConnectedTraveler.com.
He captions this very nice photo:
"I shot this scene at sunset, flying over Altamont Pass, between Livermore and California's Central Valley. From the ground they seem almost alive, like benign space aliens, murmuring in the wind."
The future look of Lamma's rolling hills?
Maybe we can get an aerial photo of our Quixotine soon as well.
Soundbydesign, are you reading this??
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 7:33 pm Post subject: Re: Viva la Quixotine! |
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| Lamma-Gung wrote: | | A rotating guillotine! |
Somewhat like Caligula's killing machine in the eponymous movie. |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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| The windmill can spin now. Awesome. |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | The red light was installed on the top of the windmill tower yesterday. |
It's been on for over a week. I can see it without getting out of bed. Maybe Lamma's new Red Light District?? |
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