You are really into this!

And what you've posted is fascinating...

 

Ha! Ha!! Yes, I am totally into this!! I find it very interesting, not to mention the good pay!! And I am lucky enough to have the place in my own backyard!!

As a matter of fact Wolf, with your electrical background, I bet you wouldn't have trouble getting on board if you had the gumption to do so. They don't have trouble getting people to work the mecahnics, but getting people who can understand a set of schematics is hard for them. GE came in and passed out applications just last week, and offered paid training in New York, plus per diem, to anybody who was willing to go, regardless of previous experience. They are so desperate for people, it's almost sad!!

 

I know youre a lady but you got a pair bigger than mine.

I hate heights, I get scared on scaffolding. I dunno how you do it.

 

I think that the windmills are a positive contribution to the scenery.

Lizzie, don't be getting any ideas about taking a ride on one of those blades!

 

No, but i wouldn't mind repelling down the tower!!! Whoo Hoo!! What a rush that has got to be!!

 

how do the dampers work than and where are they located at? It was in 2003, when I worked on them they could build them including setting up and ready to generate for a cost of 1.5million each. I enjoyed working on them, but not in winter. I still have photos somewhere. It had something like a 72:1 gear ratio from the blade to the generator. The nacelle reminded me of the old aluminum travel trailers when it was sitting on the ground.

 

there is a wind ranch in ca. and I drive past them everyday on my commute , you have to see them up close to appreciate how big they really are.
I'm an electrician too but have not gotten the chance to work on them - yet.

 

That GE Company willing to take a 55 year old, with a bad back and gimpy legs, arms and hands & train me to read them? I'm willing to learn to read schematics. But if more than basic math is involved, I'm not qualified. Sigh. I'd sure love to have a job rather than fight for social security. I know all I could accomplish would be maybe climing one tower per day.. lol..and it'd probably take quite a while to do that!

You are so very fortunate. I think those things just even LOOK cool.

 

If we had ten of those located in the Las Vegas Valley, it would do two great things.

One get rid of about 100,000 scumbags. And then, generate power for people who work and pay for their livings! Right on! I like this Idea.

 

They amount to a weighted pendulum and are near the top. When the towers begin to sway, the weights counteract, much like a gyro.

 

yes it is.
i still remember the rush i used to get when i would step off the top of the microwave towers back in the late 70's and repell down the outside of the 300 foot tall lattice work tower.

 

Thrill seaker! But that is a ride I envy you for having taken....

Whoooeeeeyyyy!!!!!

What a rush....

 

yes wolfie, it was one heck of a rush. i did it over a dozen times till i got caught by a supervisor in the safety dept.

but then again, that was done back when i was in my 20's, and weighed under 160 lbs. now, in my 50's, and rite around 300 lbs, i would be afraid the rope would break, if i was even able to climb the tower at all.

 

Gravity is much stronger these days!

 

I remember reading about that in Physics class!! Ha! Ha! Ha! That explains why it hurts so much more when we fall down after the age of 40!!