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Renewable Energy Questions/Discussion => Wind and Hydro => Topic started by: Norm on March 17, 2012, 07:35:01 am

Title: windmills in Conneaut, ohio
Post by: Norm on March 17, 2012, 07:35:01 am
Wolvenar, you asked about our windmills....they are commercial.
http://engineeredwindsystems.com/ohio-wind-turbine-installation.html
You'll see Conneaut, Ohio....(that's us .)
guess I'll have to post some pics of them in pic gallery one of these days.
I'll see if I can find some pics of them.....
I guess EPS has quite a few interesting deals ....stand alone street lights....
10 KW wind turbines  (something like 6-8 yrs. payback)
Norm.
Title: Re: windmills in Conneaut, ohio
Post by: Norm on March 17, 2012, 05:53:07 pm
Here is the one down by the harbor.....
http://www.boatnerd.com/news/newsthumbsb/images-10-2/2-windmill-4-11-10-ae.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ocongLrMq1c/TiEEZPGYCSI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/XvoD7D704Og/s640/photo-758929.JPG

the only one I could find by I90..... it is 600KW had computer trouble very seldom
working lately.
the first one is 400 KW helps run the waste water treatment plan....about a 1/5 of the
power required?
was hit by lightning awhile ago took about 6mos. to get around to fixing it.
What a neat mobile crane .....cab about 12ft. wide !
Norm
Title: Re: windmills in Conneaut, ohio
Post by: ghurd on March 17, 2012, 09:08:02 pm
This is the 600KW at the school.
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Title: Re: windmills in Conneaut, ohio
Post by: Wolvenar on March 17, 2012, 11:58:24 pm
We have one now at our school, but we certainly don't have a 600KW, just a twenty if i remember right.
It's been a long time since I was involved.  I built a website for it, initially for gathering donations to complete it.
Then added a place to display logging data but once the Park Rapids Area Schools took it over its was changed up, made a mess, and not ever totally complete after that. It has now been hacked and is advertising russian brides, and viagra like stuff, I have tried to inform administration, and the school tech guy, with never any luck getting it fixed. 

The site is so infested I'll save everyone the nastiness and not link.

The day it was raised
(http://www.anotherpower.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3270&g2_serialNumber=2)

(http://www.anotherpower.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3277&g2_serialNumber=2)

(http://www.anotherpower.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3274&g2_serialNumber=2)
Title: Re: windmills in Conneaut, ohio
Post by: tomw on March 18, 2012, 07:52:35 am
Local college put this 1.6 MegaWatt General Electric XLE up last year...

(https://www.luther.edu/reason/images/373847.jpg)

https://www.luther.edu/sustainability/energy/windturbine/ (https://www.luther.edu/sustainability/energy/windturbine/)

Not in the most ideal location (that sign is in the river bottom) but they get to see it from campus and many places around town so it makes them look "green". All good and I get to watch it loping along at about 30 RPM a lot of the time.

Tom
Title: Re: windmills in Conneaut, ohio
Post by: Norm on March 18, 2012, 02:32:10 pm
The one down at the docks in Conneaut seems to turn about 20 rpm,
at the max.
Have to pick up two of the Grandkids from school every week day so
we drop by there most every day to check on it.
Norm.