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Old 3rd Sep 2014, 05:23
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Lantern10
 
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A few numbers relating to Wattle Point wind farm at Edithburg SA.

55 x 1.65 mW turbines
each turbine powers approx 945 houses
Each Nacelle weighs in at 51 Tons
The foundations each contain 210 cu/m of 504 Tons of concrete
Each foundation contains 20 Tons of reinforcing
The farm produces 2% of SA's electricity
The farm cost $165M to build
Design life of 25 years
So $127 per house/per year
Tip speed of blade is 222Klm/h

This info came from a pic I took of the data plate, so sorry no link.

Personally I thought they looked fantastic.
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