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The Repower nacelle is just over 300 tons, with the blades weighing (from memory, 90 tons each)
Found this to show the size of these things (for the new Siemens turbines with 75m blades)
Wind power
Notice how many turbines from Chinese OEMs grace the list. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Speaking of on-shore: can you find me the mass data for the Enercon E-126? (It's not on the page on the turbine on the company homepage.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Maybe this is a little OT, but has there been any effort to organize wind education groups that step in to educate the public when wind farms are proposed. It certainly seems that the opposition is well organized. (And, I suspect funded covertly by fossil fuel interests) At least in North America, the political obstacles seem to be an issue with expanding the penetration of wind power into the energy mix. I've been thinking that this might actually be something that someone could form a non-profit or consultancy around.....
And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
They hid the turbine database behind a paywall... *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
The Areva M5000-135 (rotor dia. 135m) THM is only 375t. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Answer: "Uh, I would rather not say."
But he had never bothered learning to land the thing. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
Concorde could barrel roll. keep to the Fen Causeway
My experiences with perhaps a dozen ex-military pilots who went into the commercial airline business makes me think that passenger jets were routinely rolled. Back in the days before every single thing that you do is recorded. Probably not any more.
http://clickamericana.com/eras/1950s/passenger-jet-does-a-double-barrel-roll-1955
Also, looking at the rotor diameters, any chance the Alstom Haliade 150-6MW and the Siemens SWT-6.0-154 will be up-rated? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Uprating exercises have been done, but unlikely anything beyond the preliminaries would occur until more operational data is collected and analyzed. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
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