Winner of largest smoke ring contest

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GDS_Starfury

how exactly does the blade catch fire?
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bobarossa

Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 23, 2022, 09:33:51 AM
how exactly does the blade catch fire?
I think lightning can set just about anything on fire!

Sir Slash

Especially if it contains 800 gallons of oil.  :o
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W8taminute

^Wait so these wind turbines operate on oil power? 
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Sir Slash

Apparently they need oil to produce wind. Unless they were just storing some up there.
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bobarossa

Quote from: Sir Slash on July 25, 2022, 11:03:49 AM
Apparently they need oil to produce wind. Unless they were just storing some up there.
Wind turbines have complicated gearboxes requiring high performance oil to keep lubricated. 

Sir Slash

Of course they do, lots of it. Eight hundred gallons in the turbine and 1300 gallons of mineral oil in the ground-level transformer according to the article. That's 2100 gallons of oil per turbine by my math. And there's 139 turbines in the Wind Field.  :coolsmiley:
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GDS_Starfury

guess what gets recycled and, usually, not burned.
Toonces - Don't ask me, I just close my eyes and take it.

Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.


Sir Slash

That's good to hear. Did they ever get the whole problem with killing eagles and hawks solved?
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solops

That spiral screw from the windmill is really cool. I would think that lightning would hit the motor rather than the extremely of the blade.
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JasonPratt

The blade extremity is moving a lot more, creating ionization in the fiberglass laminate. Something similar can happen while chopping fiberglass originally into the laminate: if we didn't have a grounding wire attached, the operators (and maybe nearby people) would be getting strong electrical shocks pretty regularly, including jumping off the glass as sparks of (what amounts to) lightning.

I'm guessing there must have been a problem in any grounding set up to prevent that here.
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