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Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas

Feb 27th 2013, 6:23 pm

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Do you live near a wind farm? Would you?

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Posted By Bink

Re: Do you live near a wind farm? Would you?

The issue with schemes like this is there are many additional costs and complexities.

Efficiency is one, it's hard to harness a large amount of this power.

Cost is another: it costs a lot of...

Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas

Feb 6th 2013, 7:42 pm

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Do you live near a wind farm? Would you?

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Posted By Bink

Re: Do you live near a wind farm? Would you?

I recommended Offshore power generation but they didn't want to do that! (There were 2x cables being run which is incredibly expensive!)
DC wasn't a feasible option. There were many variables...

Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas

Feb 6th 2013, 7:35 pm

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Do you live near a wind farm? Would you?

Views: 5,960

Posted By Bink

Re: Do you live near a wind farm? Would you?

I think it's just a question of semantics - we're essentially saying the same thing. I was just trying to clarify that the power is what it is (and yes the voltage level is related) but the next step...

Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas

Feb 6th 2013, 6:32 pm

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Do you live near a wind farm? Would you?

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Posted By Bink

Re: Do you live near a wind farm? Would you?

Okay, so the voltages are very similar then. Like I said, I'm familiar with Offshore rather than onshore but the principles are the same,'collector' cables feeding to a local windfarm substation,...

Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas

Feb 6th 2013, 5:40 pm

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Do you live near a wind farm? Would you?

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Posted By Bink

Re: Do you live near a wind farm? Would you?

I'm not so sure of Onshore voltages but Offshore the inter array cables (between the turbines) are normally 33 kV and the transmission line 132 kV.

Off the top of my head, this is at the lower end...

Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas

Feb 6th 2013, 4:30 pm

Replies: 148

Do you live near a wind farm? Would you?

Views: 5,960

Posted By Bink

Re: Do you live near a wind farm? Would you?

Living close to one wouldn't bother me - I too don't mind the look of them. Resale would be a consideration though.

We're in a new section and ours are buried - actually it was a major factor...

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