That’s huge. How do they anchor something with all that moving mass to the sea floor?
A few years back when I had my mill delivered the crane driver was telling me that the day before he had delivered a 30 tonne gearbox. It was for a wind turbine. Seriously big engineering in those things for sure.
A honking big tower. That's the technical term.
The tower itself is around 1200 tonnes. I'm actually not entirely sure what the tower foundation looks like, but I imagine it involves some big pilings driven into the seafloor. Once you get past a certain depth, a floating structure like a floating oil rig is the only real solution. That's expensive enough that it's hard to make it pencil out. That's part of the reason the East Coast is getting most of the wind power installations--our water is too deep out here.The whole nacelle on one of these is around 750 tonnes. And the wild thing is that turbines are only expected to get bigger. Years ago, our shipyard clients were having trouble with lead times on Z-drives (imagine a prop for 3000 HP that turns on a vertical axis like an outboard engine). The problem was that there were so many land-based windmills going in that the Z-drive manufacturers were having trouble getting large ring gears. GE would basically walk into a gear factory and buy up a year's production in a single contract.
He might have the most popular youtube EV channel in the UK. I'd forgotten about him, but just subscribed again.I ran across this bloke this morning. Some very interesting EV/Battery news. And the guy is a hoot!
I looked him up and found out Robert Llewellyn played Kryten in Red Dwarf.
If you hop out here, there’s a busy floatplane airline (Kenmore Air) that flies people around the area in Otters and Beavers. As I understand it, their flights aren’t all that expensive. And you get to dodge sailboats and kayaks on takeoff and landing!I live in NW Wisconsin & grew up in Duluth, MN which isn't too far from Ontario Canada. I have quite a few friends who have flown into lakes/resorts in northern Ontario to go fishing. And the aircraft of Canadian pilots for these excursions is the Otter. I'd love to fly in one.
I’ve done lots and lots of fly in fishing trips. Go do it sometime. You’ll have a blast.I live in NW Wisconsin & grew up in Duluth, MN which isn't too far from Ontario Canada. I have quite a few friends who have flown into lakes/resorts in northern Ontario to go fishing. And the aircraft of Canadian pilots for these excursions is the Otter. I'd love to fly in one.
I agree. This is a whole new game. But again price is important.
Given that Airstreams already sell for a very substantial premium over other trailers you can be sure that if it ever does go into production it will be super pricey.
Sorry.
I also did but posted it here instead, because the subject is a recipe for hjijacking this thread and clog it up. I started those other threads to avoid eternal arguments about ICE and government in this one.
Comparing with ICE and arguing about it forever: here.
Arguing about incentives and government forever: here.
Technical progress about batteries and related news stories: this thread.
So how do you build a motorcycle that's both British and electric. I mean, does it leak electrolyte?
Only if it has anything to do with the Prince of Darkness (Lucas Industries).So how do you build a motorcycle that's both British and electric. I mean, does it leak electrolyte?
