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| petanque don Senior Member  Joined: 02/08/2006 Location: AustraliaPosts: 212 |
I was surfing panoramio and found a wind farm photo Makes the Australian wind farms look like hobby farms. It must be a good site. |
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Gizmo Admin Group  Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5019 |
Wow! Big wind farm. I see on the google map next to the photo the windmfarm goes a fair way behind the camera as well. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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GWatPE Senior Member Joined: 01/09/2006 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2127 |
Was this the wind farm described on the 4Corners show last year? Gordon. become more energy aware |
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sPuDd Senior Member Joined: 10/07/2007 Location: AustraliaPosts: 251 |
Sweeeeeeeeet 
That area must have some serious desert winds. If I lived near there, I'd take long walks among the turbines 
My guilty pleasure is paying a visit to Windy Hill Wind Farm Ravenshoe North Queensland AU. Just love the way you can SEE mega watts of electricity going into the grid - tis all good :-) 
sPuDd.. It should work ...in theory |
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vasi Guru  Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
Hi sPuDd, Under your photo you can read: "It should work ...in theory"
I like it, also the environment. Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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martinjsto Senior Member Joined: 09/10/2007 Location: AustraliaPosts: 149 |
about time australia took up the turbines seriosly, on a recent visit back home to UK there are heaps just off the coast(east anglica) all sitting in the sea, but were too busy selling green coal to the world, what a laugh were willing too spend billions on selling "green coal" to the world and aussies, but wont invest in our kids future. i herd from a local in albant WA that there closing down the wind farm down there as the maintenence is too expencive haha what a joke, i do work for downer and western power installing there transfer stations, and my bro has worked for the major powerstations in collie WA as service tec and you should see the maintenence budget. i just dont understand there thinking, anyway thats my opinion like it or not martin free power for all McAlinden WA |
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| petanque don Senior Member Joined: 02/08/2006 Location: AustraliaPosts: 212 |
As an economic thing trying to keep our coal customers to keep buying Australian coal will be good for the economy in the short term. In the long term climate change will make coal very costly but this cost is not born by the coal mines. This is called an externality in economic terms. (Who pays for climate change) Australia is not in the position to make lots of money from renewables. But we do have lots of coal and uranium to sell. 
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tattoomike68 Newbie  Joined: 13/04/2008 Location: United StatesPosts: 4 |
Just about 20 miles from me is a 454 660kW Vestas wind turbine wind farm on the washington / oregon border. here is a picture when they were being built. 
Its one of the largest in the world. I think it looks cool. not an eyesore at all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateline_Wind_Project |
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