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« Reply #900 on: December 11, 2009, 12:58:50 AM »

Real turbines have little tiddly 'winglets' presumably for vortex-shedding purposes.

Saw them on the Albany windfarm  on southern coast of Australia (12 1.8MW enercon e66 turbines - sexy) 41% capacity factor too, I worked out, which is pretty damn good.

http://www.verveenergy.com.au/mainContent/sustainableEnergy/OurPortfolio/Albany_Wind_Farm.html

The lack of PV in western australia is criminal. I saw one small domestic installation in 3 weeks of travel. Perth has an _average_ or 8hrs sunshine/day. I did see quite a lot of solar thermal - up to one house in 3 in posh areas. Maybe 1 in 14 elsewhere. Solarhart seem to have the market pretty-much sewn up.

And the politics of them trying (and failing) to get a (very weak) emission trading bill through parliament was very entertaining. You got things like a senator standing up and complaining that carbon-trading would be bad for his Aluminium smelting plant, powered by neaby brown coal station. Yes, that's right - having an ali smelter run from brown coal power is about the most ungreen thing on the whole planet you could possibly do - any sensible scheme would indeed encourage it to shut down - that's the whole damn point!

The Australians seem to be about as recalcitrant as the Americans and Canadians on the green front, which is ironic as they are particularly vulnerable to climate change, and indeed are already suffering (drought, fires, farmland becoming too dry).

Hmm, I digress somewhat.
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« Reply #901 on: December 11, 2009, 01:13:56 AM »

http://ecopolis.com.au/projects.html
You shuld have gone to see my mate Paul in Adelaide, that would have blown yer mind. Cool
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« Reply #902 on: December 12, 2009, 04:30:49 PM »

Watch this space, patient ones... The Spec is comin round on Sunday to play gin-poles and hoisting!
Be still your beating hearts......

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« Reply #903 on: December 12, 2009, 06:10:15 PM »

Hoorah, Hoorah.

We wait with bated breath, we do.

Will there be any wind, we don't want your flying debris getting mixed up with the meteor clouds do we?   whistlie

Billy.

 Grin Grin Grin Grin
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« Reply #904 on: December 12, 2009, 10:23:33 PM »

Cant promise much excitement i'm afraid..... unless me gin pole collopses under the strain and The Spec has to smartly step out the way. We'll see...... It'll probly rain knowing this place.   fume

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« Reply #905 on: December 12, 2009, 11:02:51 PM »



Anyhoo - before any sort of excitement, here is the pesky shreddied blade-end......









I spoke to NavviJohn and discovered a new set of lollipop sticks would be about £60 plus all the dreaded extras. Yikes!
Frotdor coffers extremely echoey at present so thinking that some bodgineered specimens might have to materialise in due course.....   Pff!

In the meantime an just for larks, like..... I trust most of you are familiar with those old 3D viewers we all had as kids (if you're proper old like me an Noel..!). Well seems you can achieve a simliar effect with nothing more teknikal than a digical camera and a Moovan!

If you look at the centre of the piccy below and let your eyes go all relaxed and crosseyed like until a third image appears in the middle - just keep concentrating on it and beloved Moovan leaps out of your non 3D monitor in joyous exultation!







Well it works for me.....

Busy day..??

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« Reply #906 on: December 12, 2009, 11:15:27 PM »

I kin see a herd,? flok,? gaggle?jam? of moovans, another Benrinnes anybody

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« Reply #907 on: December 12, 2009, 11:43:53 PM »

But do you see the 3D one, hm?
Alcohol may or may not help depending on which way it routinely makes yer eyes go.....

3D Moovan = awesome!
Obviously.

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« Reply #908 on: December 13, 2009, 12:27:39 AM »

doesnt work on a 7" screen. I hit my focal limit way before 3D
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« Reply #909 on: December 13, 2009, 12:28:34 AM »

doesnt work on a 7" screen. I hit my focal limit way before 3D
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« Reply #910 on: December 13, 2009, 10:38:48 AM »

But you now appear to be replying stereoscopically
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« Reply #911 on: December 13, 2009, 11:33:09 PM »

That there stereoscopic moovan viewing trick is very similar to the eye exercise I was shown, so you don't have to wear glasses when your eyes get a bit lazy.

Apparently by forcing the focus muscles to work harder you can get your eyes to 'sharpen up' .
The Brain also gets a workout as it gets lazy with the processing.
Got to be done regularly apparently and doesn't fix all eye conditions.
The alternative is glasses, which fix the problem for a while and allow your eye muscles / brain to get even lazier so after a few years the lenses have to get a bit thicker .....

I use the Winston Churchill 'salute' at about 0.5 m and work to get the third finger visible. Then try to hold the image for a while.  Well what else is there to do during those long hot baths ?

Ive been able to get very short term vision improvements by doing this.
Could briefly read writing at a distance that's normally blurred, after doing a bit of finger watching.

I wont change to staring at moovan cos its quite a lot harder to pull the images together at the approx 0.8m distance to my monitor.


With regards to the shopsoiled blade of doom, could it be shortened and re-drilled, then have a lightweight winglet added, ideally with its mate getting similar treatment ?
A nice sandwich of reinforcing material around the root area would be even better.

Then theres the possibility of chemical 'hardening', and I may have something that could help  stir
like conkers dipped in vinegar then baked .....


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« Reply #912 on: December 14, 2009, 12:01:29 AM »

I'm not dipping my conkers in vinegar matey! Not even for you!

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« Reply #913 on: December 15, 2009, 12:24:59 AM »

A Tower Tale -
Yeah, so lowering this thing then.
Thought i had better do some preliminary bugg3ring about before the materialisation of 'Himself'.
Scoured some Frotsheds and identified some likely looking gin pole constituents.


Mmm, steel leggy things....






Gert chunk o Gods Metal would bolt in there just right i reckon.....






Lookit my awesome new camera and its fancy macro shot of a hole.







needed them holes for this, see?

Frankenmast....  Roll Eyes



Eh? Whats not level you say....?
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Hauled the gin up along to the turnip pole and boshed it right on.
It is long enough whatever you say.




OK, couldnt find a longer bit o timber, alright! Happy now?
It'll be fiiinne!


 Roll Eyes

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« Reply #914 on: December 15, 2009, 09:23:13 PM »

cor frotts,!!!!
            you have just found a copy of our traditional oirish bear trap.dey are banned over here you know, twas very sore on bear goolies and human goolies,had us all squeaking in high pitched voices,, stir:plans are afoot to install them in leinster house but out politicians sound bad enough as it is,,
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