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Offshore wind turbine readied
the-japan-news.com ^
| June 26, 2013
Posted on 06/29/2013 5:09:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A floating wind turbine for electricity generation off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture has been completed at a Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. shipyard in Chiba Prefecture.
The 2,000-kilowatt wind turbine, which was unveiled to the media on Tuesday, has a rotor with a diameter of 80 meters and sits on a structure supported by a set of three 32-meter-high cylindrical iron floats.
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Keisuke Murakami, chief of the New and Renewable Energy Division of the ministry-affiliated Natural Resources and Energy Agency, expressed hope to “make a success of the project as a symbol of reconstruction in Fukushima.”
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posted on
06/29/2013 5:09:01 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Anybody have odds on that thing getting smashed by the next brisk storm ?
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posted on
06/29/2013 5:13:50 PM PDT
by
PieterCasparzen
(We have to fix things ourselves)
To: PieterCasparzen
Dunno...but the seagull population is going to take a hit.
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posted on
06/29/2013 5:23:11 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: BenLurkin
That’s okay, nobody likes seagulls, right?
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posted on
06/29/2013 5:24:03 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: BenLurkin
Just as long as it doesnt ruin the view from the kennedy compound...
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posted on
06/29/2013 5:25:56 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/29/2013 5:34:09 PM PDT
by
shove_it
(old Old Guardsman)
To: Mastador1
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posted on
06/29/2013 5:35:07 PM PDT
by
PieterCasparzen
(We have to fix things ourselves)
To: BenLurkin
Kewl, an 80 meter chum grinder, the fishing will
be GREAT!
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posted on
06/29/2013 5:36:54 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: BenLurkin
Free food will increase shark population in that area.
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posted on
06/29/2013 5:40:31 PM PDT
by
353FMG
( I do not say whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
To: tet68
Kewl, an 80 meter chum grinder, the fishing will be GREAT! Except that the fish will ignore the bait because it isn't pre-minced and they're already full on fowl.
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posted on
06/29/2013 6:06:46 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
To: PieterCasparzen
Yea , that was my first thought.
Plus what kind of rotational variance will the bobbing of the waves have on the rotors which are essentially a flywheel.
If you ever held a bicycle wheel while it was spinning, you'll agree that they don't like lateral forces.
To: BenLurkin
As a side bennie, it cuts down on the seagull crap on your windshield for miles!
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posted on
06/29/2013 6:51:34 PM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: BenLurkin
It’s really a big electric fan they are using to blow the radiation away from them.
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posted on
06/29/2013 7:16:25 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: PieterCasparzen
Now that right there is funny!
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posted on
06/29/2013 9:05:21 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(Psalm 46)
To: BenLurkin
I hope it works. It would take about 500 of these to generate 1 GW, which is the average output of a single nuclear power plant (I don’t know how big the Fukushima plant was, with it’s multiple reactors). I wonder how much area that would take up, as big windmills need some separation so that they don’t mess up each other’s airflow environment.
To: Mastador1; BenLurkin
Coming head line.....
“Albatross complicit in Albatross deaths”
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posted on
06/30/2013 7:14:02 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Who will shoot Liberty Valence?)
To: PieterCasparzen
Thanks for the recipes. I now understand why we don’t have an open season on seagulls here in Kansas!
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posted on
07/01/2013 11:39:59 PM PDT
by
tdscpa
To: PieterCasparzen
Anybody have odds on that thing getting smashed by the next brisk storm ?
I don't think it will last that long....
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posted on
07/01/2013 11:47:28 PM PDT
by
rottndog
('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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