Wind turbines

Wind turbines Cramlington
Originally uploaded by rajmarshall

These wind turbines weren't here last time I was up in Northumberland, not commissioned yet but they're to supply the Merck Sharp and Dohme plant in Cramlington with most of its power. One other picture of the turbines on my flickr pages - next to this one (click on the photo)

Energy photos

Some sensational (IMHO) photos in todays Guardian of various power plants by Mitch Epstein.

In Britain, this might be regarded as somewhat cranky though pretty harmless, but in the mass paranoia of the post-9/11 Bush era, Epstein's journey became the act of an enemy of the state.
He was regularly stopped, searched, followed, run out of town, shouted at and interrogated by state police and the FBI. Simple pictures of electrical power production in the everyday landscape of middle America became an exploration of political and corporate power, a portrait of the American landscape and people defined by an energy-dependent consumer lifestyle.

We were lucky last week in our tour of Welsh power plants! His book is available here with some more photos.

Squirrel takes out swissGrid

According to this (German) site and the Register a red squirrel took down Swiss TV - in the middle of the Olympic closing ceremony - forcing them to miss Boris and David Beckham - at least it was a red squirrel (European terrorism rather than a US import).

Nice picture of the substation on the German site..

Ouch!

video of a wind turbine having problems - via Bifurcated rivets

On xkcd this week...

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe:
we have a complicated pedestrian crossing by the offices, maybe we should see if we can identify our visitors?

A couple of links

First this on lightning farms as a source of electricity.
And this off the Stockhausen site cartoon page

Ouch!

This was sent to someone at work. (couldn't get the embed copy to work..). .. Later .. no doubt OCICBW would point out that the hooded garment looks slightly papal but I would never do such a thing...