Jun
16
2009
ENERCON E126 – The World’s Largest Wind Turbine
By admin
This is the Enercon E-126, the first wind turbine with 6 MW rated power, rotor diameter: 126m (413ft), hub height: 135m(450ft). Two of these giant wind power units have been built for testing at an onshore location, Rysumer Nacken, near Emden, in the northwest of Germany.
Here each WPU is expected to produce about 18 Mio kWh per year, enough for more than 4,500 homes.
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Why’s that?
Why’s that?
I see the future
I see the future
…now you’re …
…now you’re talking…: )
It is not a hoax? …
It is not a hoax? Well where did all this carbon come from? Oil you say????? Where did the oil come from? Plant and animals you say??? Wake up you moron. We have only been tracking the average temperatures for how long? All this carbon was on the surface millions of years before we walked the earth, let alone tracked it. You have no idea how long this cycle might be. Ask your savior Gore why he fired one of the premier experts on the subject…because he showed Gore was wrong
LOL! It is a shame …
LOL! It is a shame companies like these get supported AT ALL!
A shame companies …
A shame companies like Kenetech (US Windpower, Inc.) get supported by the NSA to do industrial espionage on german industries
enchantedlearning . …
enchantedlearning . com / subjects / plants / leaf /
Most food …
Most food production takes place in elongated cells called palisade mesophyll. Gas exchange occurs in the air spaces between the oddly-shaped cells of the spongy mesophyll.
Veins support the leaf and are filled with vessels that transport food, water, and minerals to the plant.
A leaf is made of …
A leaf is made of many layers that are sandwiched between two layers of tough skin cells (called the epidermis). The epidermis also secretes a waxy substance called the cuticle. These layers protect the leaf from insects, bacteria, and other pests. Among the epidermal cells are pairs of sausage-shaped guard cells. Each pair of guard cells forms a pore (called stoma; the plural is stomata). Gases enter and exit the leaf through the stomata.
djpickle68-Don’t …
djpickle68-Don’t remember basic biology? “In most plants, leaves are the major site of food production for the plant. Structures within a leaf convert the energy in sunlight into chemical energy that the plant can use as food. Chlorophyll is the molecule in leaves that uses the energy in sunlight to turn water (H2O) and carbon dioxide gas (CO2) into sugar and oxygen gas (O2). This process is called photosynthesis.”
Seriosly anoniab… …
Seriosly anoniab….Are you F-ing us here?
Next time ya water the house plants use 4 time as much fertilizer as your supposed too.
See how all that plant food works out.
CO2 one more time for the mentally handicapped it a green house gas and is causing the average global temp to rise. Its not a cycle its no hoax wake up.
Shut off the Limbauh stop watching Dances with the stars and read a book. Oh and a science paper or 2 written after 2006 would be good. The argument is over, its happening.
Look up Raccoon …
Look up Raccoon Mountain. Near Chattanooga, Tn
WE MUST move to harness the none polluting energy source at our disposal.
Wind,solar,tidal….They are simple put the only answer. Yes there are major draw backs but coal, natural gas will only continue the MAJOR problem of climate change.
MIT just release a report estimating a 5 to 7 degree change in average global temps by 2100.
If you don’t think that is a problem worth tackling you’re truly lost.
I fear for us all.
Look up Raccoon …
Look up Raccoon Mountain. Near Chattanooga, Tn
Its a Hydroelectric storage facility. Takes excess capacity off the grid and pumps water up hill with it. whenpower is need on the grid the pumps stop and the water runs back threw them generating electricity.
1650 MEGAWATTS WORTH.
Yes Wind isn’t perfect.
Nuculer isnt either.
The waste created by it will last longer that recorded history.
this is a new love …
this is a new love right here…
these turbines …
these turbines creep me out
mrhippo79-and CO2 …
mrhippo79-and CO2 is not pollution; it’s plant food.
mrhippo79-”You …
mrhippo79-”You might as well say that enforcing costly safe disposal of nuclear waste means that it’s no longer a free market economy.”
We aren’t talking about disposal; we are talking about production.
This is the truth; …
This is the truth; why are you hiding it?
You might as well …
You might as well say that enforcing costly safe disposal of nuclear waste means that it’s no longer a free market economy.
The subsidy is there to attribute a cost to environmental damage. i.e. to penalise polluters and reward those who don’t pollute. It is a free market, but regulated to achieve a goal.
To Fossilman8’s …
To Fossilman8’s recent post, embedded energy is not the output proper metric, but rather guaranteed capacity, which requires companion generation that makes wind energy a comparable source to the grid. This means natural gas turbines dedicated to absorbing wind energy fluctuation must be included with each wind energy facility.
The increased heat rate (cubic ft. of gas per mWh) of gas turbines in this role vs. the status quo heat rate must be considered along with the incremental O&M cost .
Economic arguments …
Economic arguments cannot be put aside, first of all, because the land use and environmental imposition combined with the economics paint a picture of dismal failure. Industrial sprawl of wind energy is over 2,000 times that of nuclear power per unit of guaranteed capacity, and to reduce electricity emissions by just 5%, it will require an investment in wind of well over two trillion dollars. The consumption growth of electricity
would outstrip mitigation in 1/3 the time to construct it.
Economic arguments …
Economic arguments aside, what is the equation of embedded energy in the components and maintenance versus energy generated over time. That is, could the energy produced by one of these behemoths account for the mining, smelting, manufacturing, and deployment of itself? How many times over before replacement? This is the essential reckoning.
Wow… And I …
Wow… And I thought the windmills in the Oregon Cascades were huge… Huh…
mrhippo79-No, if …
mrhippo79-No, if something needs subsidizing it’s no longer a free market economy.
So if something …
So if something needs subsidised it’s bad? Following that logic it would be fine if I burned polar bears and giant pandas to generate power, as long as it returned a profit.
Adam Smith doesn’t have the answer for everything, particularly where the environment is concerned.