People keep complaining about wind turbines ruining the view, but I look at them on the moors turning in the wind and I'm just like windy bois
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@helenclayton Yes, it was - very, very close to home! Leeds and Plymouth must have run very similar field trips. I suppose the choice was more limited in the 90s. It was 1989-92 for me.
@NellytheWillow Yes, you’re probably right about the choice then. I was 95-98 after a year out. For the field trip half of my group went to do something in South Wales which didn’t sound as interesting as my choice. Then the Sea Empress oil spill happened and they were right in the thick of it and changed plans. Envious isn’t the appropriate word at all in the circumstances but env chemistry was my specialism and I rather felt I had picked the wrong field trip option.
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@NellytheWillow Yes, you’re probably right about the choice then. I was 95-98 after a year out. For the field trip half of my group went to do something in South Wales which didn’t sound as interesting as my choice. Then the Sea Empress oil spill happened and they were right in the thick of it and changed plans. Envious isn’t the appropriate word at all in the circumstances but env chemistry was my specialism and I rather felt I had picked the wrong field trip option.
@helenclayton The Sea Empress was a colossol environmental disaster. The South Wales students must have felt right in the thick of it. I went to CAT as part of a field trip to Wales but, like you, I can't remember much about it.
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@afewbugs
I will need to see if I can find the 20 year old photo.
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@Maker_of_Things @Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn @helenclayton Mastodon: the only social media where a fair proportion of users can be expected to have pictures of themselves in front of the same chunk of interesting engineering
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@Maker_of_Things @afewbugs @Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn fabulous!
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@Maker_of_Things @Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn @helenclayton Mastodon: the only social media where a fair proportion of users can be expected to have pictures of themselves in front of the same chunk of interesting engineering
@afewbugs @Maker_of_Things @Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn ok so if it’s still there I’ll see if I can get someone to take my photo…if I remember!
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@afewbugs @Maker_of_Things @Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn ok so if it’s still there I’ll see if I can get someone to take my photo…if I remember!
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People keep complaining about wind turbines ruining the view, but I look at them on the moors turning in the wind and I'm just like
windy bois I've always wanted to see them up close, I can't really process how huge they are
@FrazzledBrynn Oh! Definitely go and see them up close! they are ace
(the one in the picture is really old and not that big but it's in a place that's a good walk) -
@krnlg @FrazzledBrynn one of my favourite cycling "whoa!" moments was cycling next to where they store off shore blades near the docks Hull. My brain just couldn't compute the size of them.
This is the satellite view of the area - https://maps.app.goo.gl/RezbKJzofHjp7NNv6 - they're as long as the nearby warehouses!
I love big on-shore ones too. Small ones (like domestic ones) spin a little too frantically to enjoy fully but the big ones are so majestic, in their slow turns.
@louisa_
If you stand under a rotating one the blade feels like it is going to smash into you each time it comes around. It's quite a scary experience. At least it was for me, my brother found it fine
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@afewbugs @helenclayton @Maker_of_Things @Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn
Damn. Can I join in with a photo of *other* people for scale?
This is from about 15 years ago, at the visitor centre at Whitelee Windfarm.
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@helenclayton @Maker_of_Things @afewbugs @Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn I love this thread so much. When I took Renewable Energy Law, we visited the only two utility scale land based wind turbines in Connecticut (long story about why only 2; rich people don’t want views spoiled!) they are so huge! And loud!
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@helenclayton @Maker_of_Things @afewbugs @Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn I love this thread so much. When I took Renewable Energy Law, we visited the only two utility scale land based wind turbines in Connecticut (long story about why only 2; rich people don’t want views spoiled!) they are so huge! And loud!
@IcooIey
They are, I have been very close to a few in my time, too.
But I'd still rather have a find turbine farm (or solar PV farm) on the landscape than a fossil fuel or nuclear power station. -
@IcooIey
They are, I have been very close to a few in my time, too.
But I'd still rather have a find turbine farm (or solar PV farm) on the landscape than a fossil fuel or nuclear power station.@Maker_of_Things @IcooIey @afewbugs @Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn I’m hoping to find out more about domestic sized wind turbines. Hopefully something smaller and quieter
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People keep complaining about wind turbines ruining the view, but I look at them on the moors turning in the wind and I'm just like
windy bois I've always wanted to see them up close, I can't really process how huge they are
@FrazzledBrynn it is very fun to stand right underneath the turning blades
