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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Hanford
Kent giving mini lesson of the government's acquisition of Hanford. Point out the grid of roads that were the town until it was purchased and leveled.
Hanford Reach
Hanford reach overlook. Reactors in distance. Columbia river in it's natural state (minus the nuclear stuff!)
Cool wind farm facts
• The farm sits higher than Snoqualmie Pass
• 149 turbines
• The fastest the turbine blades can turn is 16.5 times/minute, into
a gearbox that ends up spinning over 1000/minute
• powers 70,000 homes
• The towers are 221 ft tall, 350 ft. With the blades
• Each tower has a tall ladder inside to get up to the turbine
• The location was chosen as one of the state's windiest places
• If it gets too windy (over 56 mph), the turbines are shut down and
the blades are turned into the wind
• 273 megawatts max generation
• Each turbine is $3 million and is made to last 20 years
• 9-mph winds are necessary for standard production
• 1-2 Birds bite it per turbine per year
• instead of fins to help turn the turbines into the wind, there are
sensors that tell computers to turn the blades
• Folks with pacemakers shouldn't go into the turbine towers
• 149 turbines
• The fastest the turbine blades can turn is 16.5 times/minute, into
a gearbox that ends up spinning over 1000/minute
• powers 70,000 homes
• The towers are 221 ft tall, 350 ft. With the blades
• Each tower has a tall ladder inside to get up to the turbine
• The location was chosen as one of the state's windiest places
• If it gets too windy (over 56 mph), the turbines are shut down and
the blades are turned into the wind
• 273 megawatts max generation
• Each turbine is $3 million and is made to last 20 years
• 9-mph winds are necessary for standard production
• 1-2 Birds bite it per turbine per year
• instead of fins to help turn the turbines into the wind, there are
sensors that tell computers to turn the blades
• Folks with pacemakers shouldn't go into the turbine towers
Chuck Waggin' Tails - Day 3
Hi from Dave and Koichi...
Today's to-do list was much shorter and and straight forward... meet up with the Bus for lunch and then onward to Richland to get dinner started. Enroute to Richland, dinner was to be "burritos, but as Dave and I shared Eastern Wa stories about wineries run by hippies and containers of hay bound for Japan... thoughts of burritos began to morph into a "spaghetti fest" with marinara or meat sauce, cucumber salad, whole fresh shrimp taken from Shelton, leak (from Nash's farm) soup, fresh baked (par-baked) garlic bread and topped off with a killer banana shake.
Thanks to the added hand of Sara (Isabella), Sarah (Gabriel) and Mike (Sarkis)... dinner was on time (before 6:30p)...and was served on the lawn to boot. The only thing that did not quite make it was the leak soup... but we're saving it for tomorrow's dinner. I had a preview taste, something to look forward to for sure.
Thanks to the Bethel church's blender... we were able to concoct 8 ices cubes, 1 scoop of tillamook vanilla bean ice cream, 1/4 cup of whole milk, 1 cup of fresh orange juice and about 7 - 8 bananas... blended to a puree....for a perfect banana beverage. PERFECT! except for the fact Dave and I are at a stand-still as to whether or not to call this a smoothie or. shake. The jury is still out and the debate will continue tomorrow. For now, we found a way to kill about 40 bananas...but we have about another 40 to go.
get along lil' doggies... stay tuned y'all...
D & K
Today's to-do list was much shorter and and straight forward... meet up with the Bus for lunch and then onward to Richland to get dinner started. Enroute to Richland, dinner was to be "burritos, but as Dave and I shared Eastern Wa stories about wineries run by hippies and containers of hay bound for Japan... thoughts of burritos began to morph into a "spaghetti fest" with marinara or meat sauce, cucumber salad, whole fresh shrimp taken from Shelton, leak (from Nash's farm) soup, fresh baked (par-baked) garlic bread and topped off with a killer banana shake.
Thanks to the added hand of Sara (Isabella), Sarah (Gabriel) and Mike (Sarkis)... dinner was on time (before 6:30p)...and was served on the lawn to boot. The only thing that did not quite make it was the leak soup... but we're saving it for tomorrow's dinner. I had a preview taste, something to look forward to for sure.
Thanks to the Bethel church's blender... we were able to concoct 8 ices cubes, 1 scoop of tillamook vanilla bean ice cream, 1/4 cup of whole milk, 1 cup of fresh orange juice and about 7 - 8 bananas... blended to a puree....for a perfect banana beverage. PERFECT! except for the fact Dave and I are at a stand-still as to whether or not to call this a smoothie or. shake. The jury is still out and the debate will continue tomorrow. For now, we found a way to kill about 40 bananas...but we have about another 40 to go.
get along lil' doggies... stay tuned y'all...
D & K
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