it goes back tuesday anyway,...i got the promotion ,....which comes with a merc,...
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Bit windy
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i got the promotion ,....which comes with a merc,...
I hope itll still make it across the fields at Brockwell
congrats mate
Nope, but they where around me... I was strung out between two ash in mixed woodlands.
You know when you kinda-think, not feeling very relaxed here!
al.
I've just seen a chicken lay the same egg three times
Lol! Just gusty here in the NW - enough to make the cycling home quite interesting.
I was out on the firth of forth (force 7) in our rib yesterday right under the bridges where the wind and the waves get funneled in the narrows , had a really great time and got totally soaked , roller coasters are tame in comparison !
Xc weather is a good site that a lot of sailors use to give an idea of the wind and weather.http://www.xcweather.co.uk/
Craig............
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Aye just a bit breezy. Horrible drive home, nearly saw a ban come of the road as he over compensated for the wind. A massive limb of a tree came down in front of a lorry outside my work today as well. Luckily it was stationary and no one was hurt.
IIRC Scotland gets about 40% of the entire wind energy that Europe sees. Unfortunately, as you're seeing, it tends to happen all at once.
The problem isn't really converting the energy, we can do that OK. Even if we converted all that wind energy (and you can't do that, physics limits you to about ten percent of it at best), nobody would want it all at once like that. The real problem is storing it.
Even in these days of high-fallutin' quad core processors, the best we can really do to store large quantities of energy is to pump water up a hill, and then when we want the energy back we let it run back down again.
"That sucks" you might say. Well it surely does.
Yes, they do shut turbines down when the wind exceeds their design ratings. If they didn't, the wind would destroy them. The power in the wind is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. So if you design a turbine to produce its maximum rated output of one megawatt at, say, 20 knots (quite a stiff breeze which you don't get for much of the time, even in Scotland, and certainly not enough to warrant basing the turbine specs on it) then at eighty knots your turbine would be producing sixty-four megawatts which would blow it to kingdom come if you let it even try. That's quite apart from considering things like tower, blade and bearing loads, blade flexing, vibration modes etc.etc.
It's a nice idea, and it's a small contribution, but basically wind power isn't the answer. I think it's more a political statement than a real attempt to solve any energy problems but I guess the moderators will step in if we go any further down that route...
Seems like a good day to revive this thread.
Its a tad breezy where I am down south, and the horizontal rain adds to the fun. Dave53 and I are going for a country walk this afternoon, fools that we are.
Be safe all.
Its a tad breezy where I am down south, and the horizontal rain adds to the fun. Dave53 and I are going for a country walk this afternoon, fools that we are.
Be safe all.
Weve got the school closed at midday(misses just off to get kids) a windturbine that's brakes have failed and is breaking itself up,causing a road into village,and my misses main route to work closed,and ive just found a broke roof tile that's causing a leak into our bedroom,and the main 100mph winds are'nt meant to start till later on!
Today's forecast is for 80mph and a high risk of being blown off your feet! But the mountain forecast says the wind will drop to around 20mph in the Beacons tomorrow night.
Thank God!
Tomorrow night I'm going to be stuck somewhere in the Beacons above the Storey Arms dressed as Santa with a couple of hairy ar*ed MRT guys dressed as elves. No, it's not some wierd fetish thing! The joys of the team Christmas training weekend. Lets hope they get to us before 1am Saturday morning or I'm going to drink all the port and eat all the chocolate Christmas trees we're taking up on the hill for them. Then they'll have to carry me off
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Fairly shocking here too - North West - but weekend forecast for Snowdon, cold, clear and light winds
I like the forth road bridge website . but it tells what the wind has been not what it is going to be .
http://www.forthroadbridge.org/weather-and-status-updates
Craig..........
http://www.forthroadbridge.org/weather-and-status-updates
Craig..........
Survived our walk. Great fun it was too. Waterproofs did a great job. Came back with a log of blackthorn too, so a specially good trip.
Seems to be quite windy up here. Not been out since this morning though.
Few pics on the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-16094360
Few pics on the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-16094360
