North Range Road wind farm and what's with the stuff at Mangamaire

[sAsLEX]

Personally, I'd rather have the windfarms than no power or power cuts when the lakes get a bit low. The greenys should be glad of this renewable source of energy and I guess they are generally...except when you want to put them in Makara or places where lots of 'alteranative lifestylers' live.

Lakes would be low due to a weird weather pattern, do you not think that might include no wind?

And all the little power they do create will do is mean that Hydros spill water rather than use it to produce power as the wind farms need a backup in case the wind dies....... but hey they are green!

[cooneyr]

Gee I'm slow. Just found the thread from Scotts thread. I use to work for Connell Wagner. I heard that the 2 blade design had some fancy support mechanism that could alleviate the unequal loadings of the two blade design. The failure at Gebbies pass was supposedly due to a very rapid change from a nor easter to a 100kph southerly. Basically the turbine couldnt shut down and swing around fast enough i.e. in a couple of seconds so the generator etc got blown of the top. Was suppose to be a 1 in a million event.

As for north range road - I once got a 70 series landcruiser stuck in a hole at the north end of the interesting stuff for 6 hours. Had just moved the palmy so didnt know anybody to come help. No winch, or chains so ended up knotting lots of loops in a strop and using a highlift as a winch. Had to do LOTs of digging. Can laugh bout it now but most certainly wasnt at the time!

Cheers R

[Bass]

Will you kill the geysers in Rotorua with those plants or is that all sweet?

My understanding is that most of the damage caused by geothermal extraction in the past, was down to lowering of water levels.
I think that re-injection of the condensate is now compulsory.