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Eskom Generation's pilot wind-farm facility at Klipheuwel in the Western Cape, South Africa.
"The company’s pilot study was undertaken in 2002/3, when it erected three wind turbines at an experimental wind energy farm at Klipheuwel on the West Coast.
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To date, more than 15 GWh of electricity has been generated, contributing to an avoidance of more than 14 000 t of carbon dioxide."
Continue reading:
'Klipheuwel shows the way in renewable energy'
'Eskom blowing hotter on large-scale wind-energy prospects'
Update: Since I posted this photo a few weeks ago, Eskom's made public some of its future renewable energy plans. Here's are a few of the links to the stories currently making headlines.
Darling National Demonstration Wind Farm in Cape Town, South Africa
4x FL 1250
Power: 1.3MW
Rotor: Ø62m
Hub height: 50m
Annual yield: 13.2 Gwh
CO² reduction: 11300 t
In association with Friendly Energy.
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Darling National Demonstration Wind Farm in Cape Town, South Africa
4x FL 1250
Power: 1.3MW
Rotor: Ø62m
Hub height: 50m
Annual yield: 13.2 Gwh
CO² reduction: 11300 t
In association with Friendly Energy.
This manned camp is one of four that researchers maintained on ice floes in the Beaufort Sea during the 1972 Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment (AIDJEX) project. In this pilot study, scientists collected meteorological and oceanographic data from instruments located at the camps and on floating data buoys. The experiment was designed to collect coordinated measurements over at least one year, in order to have the right combination of data for understanding atmosphere and ice interactions. The submarine USS Gurnard participated by collecting ice draft data from upward-looking acoustical soundings (sonar). Ice draft (the depth of the ice below the water surface) is an estimator of ice thickness.
The AIDJEX project was the first major western sea ice experiment constructed specifically to answer emerging questions about how sea ice moves and changes in response to the influence of ocean and atmosphere. The pilot study in 1972 was followed by the AIDJEX field program in 1975 and 1976.
Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) AIDJEX
Darling National Demonstration Wind Farm in Cape Town, South Africa
4x FL 1250
Power: 1.3MW
Rotor: Ø62m
Hub height: 50m
Annual yield: 13.2 Gwh
CO² reduction: 11300 t
In association with Friendly Energy.
Darling National Demonstration Wind Farm in Cape Town, South Africa
4x FL 1250
Power: 1.3MW
Rotor: Ø62m
Hub height: 50m
Annual yield: 13.2 Gwh
CO² reduction: 11300 t
In association with Friendly Energy.
Darling National Demonstration Wind Farm in Cape Town, South Africa
4x FL 1250
Power: 1.3MW
Rotor: Ø62m
Hub height: 50m
Annual yield: 13.2 Gwh
CO² reduction: 11300 t
In association with Friendly Energy.
Darling National Demonstration Wind Farm in Cape Town, South Africa
4x FL 1250
Power: 1.3MW
Rotor: Ø62m
Hub height: 50m
Annual yield: 13.2 Gwh
CO² reduction: 11300 t
In association with Friendly Energy.
Researchers, including Andy Heiberg, look over controls and data inside a NASA airplane. Researchers took the NASA CV990 into the air to do several aircraft campaigns while on the 1972 Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment (AIDJEX) Project. As part of the project, scientists collected meteorological and oceanographic data from instruments located at the camps and on floating data buoys. The experiment was designed to collect coordinated measurements over at least one year, in order to have the right combination of data for understanding atmosphere and ice interactions. The submarine USS Gurnard participated by collecting ice draft data from upward-looking acoustical soundings (sonar). Ice draft (the depth of the ice below the water surface) is an estimator of ice thickness.
The AIDJEX project was the first major western sea ice experiment constructed specifically to answer emerging questions about how sea ice moves and changes in response to the influence of ocean and atmosphere. The pilot study in 1972 was followed by the AIDJEX field program in 1975 and 1976.
Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)
Researchers, including Andy Heiberg, discuss the flight map inside NASA convair990. Researchers took the NASA CV990 into the air to do several aircraft campaigns while on the 1972 Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment (AIDJEX) Project. As part of the project, scientists collected meteorological and oceanographic data from instruments located at the camps and on floating data buoys. The experiment was designed to collect coordinated measurements over at least one year, in order to have the right combination of data for understanding atmosphere and ice interactions. The submarine USS Gurnard participated by collecting ice draft data from upward-looking acoustical soundings (sonar). Ice draft (the depth of the ice below the water surface) is an estimator of ice thickness.
The AIDJEX project was the first major western sea ice experiment constructed specifically to answer emerging questions about how sea ice moves and changes in response to the influence of ocean and atmosphere. The pilot study in 1972 was followed by the AIDJEX field program in 1975 and 1976.
Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)
Researchers take the NASA CV990 into the air to do several aircraft campaigns while on the 1972 Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment (AIDJEX) Project. As part of the project, scientists collected meteorological and oceanographic data from instruments located at the camps and on floating data buoys. The experiment was designed to collect coordinated measurements over at least one year, in order to have the right combination of data for understanding atmosphere and ice interactions. The submarine USS Gurnard participated by collecting ice draft data from upward-looking acoustical soundings (sonar). Ice draft (the depth of the ice below the water surface) is an estimator of ice thickness.
The AIDJEX project was the first major western sea ice experiment constructed specifically to answer emerging questions about how sea ice moves and changes in response to the influence of ocean and atmosphere. The pilot study in 1972 was followed by the AIDJEX field program in 1975 and 1976.
Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center
Researcher Miles McPhee types while researcher George Bean looks on. The midnight sun hovers over a research camp during the 1972 Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment (AIDJEX) project. Researchers maintained four manned camps on ice floes in the Beaufort Sea. In this pilot study, scientists collected meteorological and oceanographic data from instruments located at the camps and on floating data buoys. The experiment was designed to collect coordinated measurements over at least one year, in order to have the right combination of data for understanding atmosphere and ice interactions. The submarine USS Gurnard participated by collecting ice draft data from upward-looking acoustical soundings (sonar). Ice draft (the depth of the ice below the water surface) is an estimator of ice thickness.
The AIDJEX project was the first major western sea ice experiment constructed specifically to answer emerging questions about how sea ice moves and changes in response to the influence of ocean and atmosphere. The pilot study in 1972 was followed by the AIDJEX field program in 1975 and 1976.
Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)
Two researchers discuss and learn how to use the equipment inside NASA CV990. Researchers took the aircraft to do air campaigns while on the 1972 Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment (AIDJEX) Project. As part of the project, scientists collected meteorological and oceanographic data from instruments located at the camps and on floating data buoys. The experiment was designed to collect coordinated measurements over at least one year, in order to have the right combination of data for understanding atmosphere and ice interactions. The submarine USS Gurnard participated by collecting ice draft data from upward-looking acoustical soundings (sonar). Ice draft (the depth of the ice below the water surface) is an estimator of ice thickness.
The AIDJEX project was the first major western sea ice experiment constructed specifically to answer emerging questions about how sea ice moves and changes in response to the influence of ocean and atmosphere. The pilot study in 1972 was followed by the AIDJEX field program in 1975 and 1976.
Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center
Researcher Ken Hunkins stands in front of equipment used during the 1972 Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment (AIDJEX) Project. As part of the project, scientists collected meteorological and oceanographic data from instruments located at the camps and on floating data buoys. The experiment was designed to collect coordinated measurements over at least one year, in order to have the right combination of data for understanding atmosphere and ice interactions. The submarine USS Gurnard participated by collecting ice draft data from upward-looking acoustical soundings (sonar). Ice draft (the depth of the ice below the water surface) is an estimator of ice thickness.
The AIDJEX project was the first major western sea ice experiment constructed specifically to answer emerging questions about how sea ice moves and changes in response to the influence of ocean and atmosphere. The pilot study in 1972 was followed by the AIDJEX field program in 1975 and 1976.
Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center
Researcher Miles McPhee looks over notes while on the 1972 Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment (AIDJEX) Project. As part of the project, scientists collected meteorological and oceanographic data from instruments located at the camps and on floating data buoys. The experiment was designed to collect coordinated measurements over at least one year, in order to have the right combination of data for understanding atmosphere and ice interactions. The submarine USS Gurnard participated by collecting ice draft data from upward-looking acoustical soundings (sonar). Ice draft (the depth of the ice below the water surface) is an estimator of ice thickness.
The AIDJEX project was the first major western sea ice experiment constructed specifically to answer emerging questions about how sea ice moves and changes in response to the influence of ocean and atmosphere. The pilot study in 1972 was followed by the AIDJEX field program in 1975 and 1976.
Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center
The evening that the rogue wave pulled a 7-year-old girl into the sea, Otter Bay smelled like cold, dead fishes.