At 12:15 PM 16/07/03 +0930, you wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:45:08AM +0930, Ulrich Stauss wrote:
>
> > please add 3 from the Stauss family.
>
>Done!
>
> > In your experience, is there any way to change the wind-direction on
> > weekends at Lochiel (sheer will-power...)? The BGC decided to take a '21
> > along (it's already in the trailer) for a bit of ridge fun after the
seminar
> > and the forecast promptly changed to easterlies. Any chance of lee-wave
with
> > an easterly wind direction?
>
>We've had a long-running club project to put the entire ridge on a
>turntable so that we can "bring the mountain to Mohammed" regardless
>of the wind direction. The project is still in the planning stages
>though -- Every time we start to make headway half of our project
>team gets diverted to our wind generator project (which will
>make 20kt winds blow in whatever direction we want whenever we're
>running a Flinders Ranges wave camp), so progress is slow.
Do a web search for "Project Plowshare". You should be able to increase the
height of the ridge or create an east west one. A few greenies might get
upset though.
>
>Mike Borgelt will be pleased to know that Wind Prospects is putting
>wind turbines along the crest of our ridge -- We've been in successful
>discussions with them to make sure that they're far enough behind the
>crest to ensure that they aren't a hazard to our flying.
I'm sure you will LOVE the look of them. Better not run into one or there
might be a prohibited area declared.
We're looking
>forward to their installation, because we figure that with a bit of
>covert midnight recabling and enough Amps we'll be able to feed current
>*into* the turbines, which will make them function as electric fans which
>suck air up the ridge, thereby creating a localized westerly on demand.
>
I didn't think there was enough generating capacity in SA to do this.
Mike
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