Petrified Forest and Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm
Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm:-
Cape Bridgewater wind farm is the second stage of Pacific Hydro’s four-stage Portland Wind Energy Project (PWEP) in southwest Victoria.
Completed in 2008, the 58MW Cape Bridgewater wind farm comprises 29 wind generators producing enough energy to meet the annual needs of 35,000 households, with an average electricity generation of 194GWh per year.
Operations at Cape Bridgewater abate an estimated 195,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year.
Petrified Forest:-
About 400 metres from the Cape Bridgewater Blowhole, the Petrified Forest is a stretch of interesting columnar and branching calcrete structures, some of them are over 1 metre high. In 1836 Charles Darwin visited this amazing phenomenon and wrote : "The beds have been formed by the wind having heaped up fine sand, composed of minute rounded particles of shells and corals, during which process branches and roots of trees, together with many land-shells, became enclosed. The whole then became consolidated by the percolation of calcareous matter; and the cylindrical cavities left by the decaying of the wood, were thus also filled up with hard pseudo-stalactitical stone." Some say these are ‘rhizo-concretions’ and are not actually fossils. The most accepted modern theory is that a forest of moonah trees was encased in limestone.
Petrified Forest and Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm
Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm:-
Cape Bridgewater wind farm is the second stage of Pacific Hydro’s four-stage Portland Wind Energy Project (PWEP) in southwest Victoria.
Completed in 2008, the 58MW Cape Bridgewater wind farm comprises 29 wind generators producing enough energy to meet the annual needs of 35,000 households, with an average electricity generation of 194GWh per year.
Operations at Cape Bridgewater abate an estimated 195,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year.
Petrified Forest:-
About 400 metres from the Cape Bridgewater Blowhole, the Petrified Forest is a stretch of interesting columnar and branching calcrete structures, some of them are over 1 metre high. In 1836 Charles Darwin visited this amazing phenomenon and wrote : "The beds have been formed by the wind having heaped up fine sand, composed of minute rounded particles of shells and corals, during which process branches and roots of trees, together with many land-shells, became enclosed. The whole then became consolidated by the percolation of calcareous matter; and the cylindrical cavities left by the decaying of the wood, were thus also filled up with hard pseudo-stalactitical stone." Some say these are ‘rhizo-concretions’ and are not actually fossils. The most accepted modern theory is that a forest of moonah trees was encased in limestone.