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Wind Turbine Tour
May. 8th, 2007 09:44 amOn Saturday Joyce and I went to the We Energies Byron Wisconsin wind turbine tour. While it seems very silly to drive 80+ km each way to tour a renewable energy facility, it was a rare chance to see them up close.
The site has a pair of Vestas 660kW turbines, with 23m (75 ft) blades and 65m (215 ft) towers, small by current standards, but built in 1999. They average 3000 MW-hr/year.
They are impressively big, and it’s fun watching them spin and seeing the blades flex in the wind. Even up close the noise level is low, unless by up-close you mean inside the steel tube tower. It’s fairly noisy in there.
Photos!
The site has a pair of Vestas 660kW turbines, with 23m (75 ft) blades and 65m (215 ft) towers, small by current standards, but built in 1999. They average 3000 MW-hr/year.
They are impressively big, and it’s fun watching them spin and seeing the blades flex in the wind. Even up close the noise level is low, unless by up-close you mean inside the steel tube tower. It’s fairly noisy in there.
Photos!
