Thursday, Jan 29, 2009 at 00:55
Noisy, noisy, noisy!
Couple of years ago wifey and I drove in to Thurra River, parked where the
gate locked off the track and commenced the walk up to
Point Hicks Lighthouse.
When I thought we were near the
lighthouse we heard the sound of a helicopter winding up in preparation to take off. Not wanting to miss seeing a copter take off at close range I started sprinting up the track whilst trying to ready the camera gear only to hear the rotors wind down. After a very short period of time they started winding up again.
Furiously staggering over the last rise I was confronted with a wind turbine with blades that would not have been much more than a metre each in length.
As a comparison I experienced commercial wind turbines on massive pylons, these things are seriously speed controlled and turn at a snails pace compared to small units yet even half a kilometre away you can hear the "wump, wump" they make.
Don't let any one try to con you that wind power is silent. I'd rather listen to a current generation generator from one of the better manufacturers anyday.
Ian.
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