Today my wife and I decided to visit Lewes, Delaware to see the gigantic wind turbine that was turned on this past week. It is an awesome sight to see. From ground elevation it extends to 400'. It is so huge that you can see it as far away as Rehoboth Beach, DE.
What a sight to see - and it is relatively quite. You can hear a slight whisper sound as the blades rotate.
The turbine is relatively easy to find. . . just look to the left as you are on Route 24 headed east on the road leading from Millsboro to Rehoboth Beach, DE. Continue to take the road to the Cape-May Lewis Ferry and you can't miss it. Look for the University of Delaware signs and it is located near the Lewis Boat Ramp.
What a sight to see - and it is relatively quite. You can hear a slight whisper sound as the blades rotate.
The turbine is relatively easy to find. . . just look to the left as you are on Route 24 headed east on the road leading from Millsboro to Rehoboth Beach, DE. Continue to take the road to the Cape-May Lewis Ferry and you can't miss it. Look for the University of Delaware signs and it is located near the Lewis Boat Ramp.
any stats you can give us, cost, generating capacity, operational; characteristics, why thus site was chosen?
ReplyDeleteWonder how many I could put on my 113 acres?
ReplyDeletethat whisper sound is the dollars slipping away from the arabs
ReplyDeletenow if they could get all the vehicles off the beaches
ReplyDeleteGood for Delaware..Maryland needs to do that.
ReplyDeleteI think it is a UD study project. It looks like about a 35-40kW turbine. Probable cost about $250k. Green energy grants would have paid either 50% of cost if approved before 09/09, or 25% if after that date.
ReplyDeleteI was passing through PA last week; saw 12 of these along a mountain top. Very, very neat looking.
What a dumb idea. Wind can only provide maybe 20% of the energy, while coal fire plants have to remain active 90% of the time.
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ReplyDeletenow if they could get all the vehicles off the beaches
8:08 PM
Why? What has that got to do with this post?
Without the heavy subsidies, wind power is not viable!
ReplyDeleteIt is an eyesore and a blight on the face of the earth!
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ReplyDeleteI wouldn't be surprised if more farmers/landowners that own large acreage approaches these gigantic wind turbine companies and lease plots on their property for the installation of these wind turbines. The land needed to construct the base of each wind turbine is small and the farmers can still farm the land surrounding the wind turbine.
Reference: 5:52
ReplyDeleteI'm quite sure Maryland won't allow the farmers to lease these plots for construction of windfarms.
You see the politicos campaigns are financed by the utilities.
That's the way its always been done here in Maryland.
I would rather have a wind turbine down the street from me than an oil or coal powerplant. As a matter of fact put a little wind turbine right in my front yard.
ReplyDeletei''l lease my land for a nuke reactor before a wind farm. wind is too finicky
ReplyDelete12:55pm
ReplyDeleteCheck out Three Mile Island, Chernobyl reactor, This are not FINICKY? LOL
NRX (military), Ontario, Canada, in 1952
EBR-I (military), Idaho, USA, in 1955
Windscale (military), Sellafield, England, in 1957 (see Windscale fire)
Santa Susana Field Laboratory (military), Simi Hills, California, in 1959
SL-1, Idaho, USA in 1961. (US military)
Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station (civil), Newport, Michigan, USA, in 1966
Chapelcross, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, in 1967
Lucens reactor, Switzerland, in 1969
A1 plant at Jaslovské Bohunice, Czechoslovakia.
All of these have had problems. Most of them Killed.
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