UMPI Website Introduces new section entitled Live Turbine Data

This long awaited section is brand new to the UMPI website (2/24/10) http://www.umpi.edu/wind

Although the $ 2 million turbine was commissioned nine months ago (see May 15, 2009 Bangor Daily News

http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/106065.html), unfortunately there are no data posted yet.
However, there is a letter from the university president Donald Zillman, who is also a coauthor of the book "Beyond the Carbon Economy".
The turbine is expected to produce OVER $100,000 in annual electricity savings, avoid emissions of 572 tons of carbon dioxide and produce one million KWH of electricity every year.
So it will be a true educational experience to see the actual production and wind measurement data, particularly in that such data are often hard to come by.

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Comment by Joanne Moore on February 25, 2010 at 4:39pm
Noise wise, or decible wise, there is no way to compare this turbine on a flat area with one on a ridgeline, hill or mountain. Sound travels differently in hilly places and in the water.

Go out onto a flat plain and yell "hellooooooooo", Your voice does not travel all that far. Now go up into the hills and yell "hellooooooooo", and your voice will answer back over and over, reverberating up and down the hillside for miles. We call it an echo. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that placement of wind turbines on flat, open areas will mitigate most noise problems. So what does the industry do? Yup. Place them where the sound will carry for miles while it bounces from one hilly patch to another. No too smaaaaaaart.

Good luck saving all that money on electricity, UMPI. Sacco put one up and now the data is not being displayed. Hmmm. Wonder why.


Disclaimer: I am not a rocket scientist.

 

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