[BC] The Worst I've Ever Seen!

[Mike McCarthy]

There is one by one of my sites.  Believe it or not, they are tilt-up. 
The four lines keep it stable during the tilting process.  Allows a single
small crew to move in and make operational in two days.

There is a HUGE move afoot to gather wind data for not only commercial
wind production, but for the residential and ag markets as well. 
Particularly in rural areas which farmers can install several 50-100 ft.
mini-towers and have 2-10KW turbines on their property.  In certain
applications where power use is constant, such as breeding houses, those
mini-turbines could go a LONG way towards reducing commerically generated
consumption.

In a net-zero state, such as Illinois, that could mean THOUSANDS of
dollars a year saved and a real payback of 10 years after grants and
rebates. Not to mention some level of confidence that a black-out won't
kill their livelihood.

MM

> Yes I have wondered the same thing. These little anemometry "poles" seem
> to
> just spring up out of nowhere. I've never managed to catch a crew actually
> putting one up, but I can think of a half-dozen around the area I service
> where they are considering wind turbine installations. Usually they take
> wind data at a site for a year or two before they finally commit to build
> the turbines. We had some of this stuff on one of our towers for well over
> two years before they had enough data to know for sure what they wanted to
> do. The owner of the stuff was a specialty company that did nothing but
> anemometery for renewable energy companies.
>
> Mark
> MN
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Al Wolfe <awolfe at route24.net> wrote:
>
>>    Actually, this tower looks a lot like some of the recently installed
>> small windmill setups I've seen around here. These folks are using what
>> appears to be stacked pipe guyed at each joint four ways. They are in
>> the
>> neighborhood of a hundred feet in height.
>>
>>    I just wonder how they tension the guys on this kind of setup.
>>
>> Al