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We can't do without it any more. Electricity is essential to our economy, society and to our personal lives. We need it at home and at work. More and more applications depend on electricity. Think of central heating, cars and now also trucks and large industrial production processes, such as at Tata Steel, Yarra and Dow Chemical.
TenneT has the task of installing an electricity grid at sea. This way, offshore wind farms can be connected to the onshore electricity grid. Onshore houses the greatest demand for electricity. If each wind farm had to design and construct its own export connection, it would be very expensive. The export cable determines roughly 40% of the business case of a wind farm. That is why the Dutch have a system that standardizes and coordinates this. Until 2030, TenneT will build eight identical platforms and position them offshore. These are the “sockets” for the offshore wind farms.
Hollandse Kust south
TenneT is currently installing 2 sockets for the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) wind energy zone. HKZ Alpha and Beta. Together they will provide the offshore connection for Vattenfall's 1.5 GW wind farm from the end of 2022.
Collision with Beta
On Monday, January 31 2022, storm Corrie caused an empty bulk carrier of 200+ meters to drift. After a collision with another vessel it drifted through the construction zone of HKZ. It just missed Alpha and later collided with the chassis or support jacket of the platform Beta. This has caused damage, but not to the extent that the jacket had to be replaced or had to be repaired onshore.
Topside
On December 27, 2021, the superstructure, also called topside, was placed on the jacket. TenneT is now carrying out the final installation work. In order to do this quickly and efficiently, the employees do not sail back to land every day. A working/hotel platform has been placed next to Beta. In this case, the Seafox 7. This is a four-legged, self-lifting large ship without propulsion. The ship offers space for accommodation, construction work and maintenance. It’s specifically designed to withstand harsh offshore environments and conditions, it can operate all year round in water depths up to 40m. The Seafox 7 offers permanent accommodation to 113 persons on board (POB).
Getting bigger
The topside of Beta is roughly 30 meters high, 60 meters long and 35 meters wide. In short: it is not a small object. In the future, the sockets will become larger. Because the wind farms further out to sea will become a bit larger and, due to the longer distance to land, require a different connection technology. Those platforms then become 5 football fields in size. In any case, so large that, despite a lens of 16 mm, you can no longer easily get this in one photo from so close.
Technical Stuff
This is a single non-HDR photo. The EV range of the Canon R6 is such that one in many cases doesn’t multiple shots. And that's a very nice feature when you're on board a moving ship. This shot was taken at: 250ISO, f8.0, -2/3EV, 1/250 and at 29 mils.
Post-production was done with Lightroom. Mainly balancing the (back) lighting conditions. Finally, I added the copyright signs (in Photoshop). The latter is, alas, there to stay due to the frequent copying of my photos. So, don't bother commenting on that.
Unintentional beauty of a purely utilitarian design:
socket wiring diagrams for the Philips Miniwatt vacuum tubes.
A detail of a larger plate from a 1939 brochure.
The #MacroMondays theme is socket. Am not sure this is even still functional. I *think* it’s an adapter to make a regular socket be touch sensitive.
These are apparently from around WWII. The shop, Harry J. Epstein's in KC, MO, has tons of this old stuff on the shelves. I wish I'd had more time to spend there.
“A Little Tale”…
With a gleam in his eye socket, empty now that he is a skeleton, and with a toothy grin (Yes, he still has all his teeth.), the skeleton, after years of clawing at his prison, the coffin in which he was buried so long ago and which rose to the surface after the great flood of 2005, kicked his right foot through the top of the coffin lid.
You must realize how hard a feat this was to do since, as a skeleton, he has no muscles, ligaments or tendons.
Ahh, that hole, made by his foot, let in fresh air and, even though it didn’t totally eliminate the rotting stench of his own body, it was enough to grace the skeleton with at least some clean pure cool air.
Despite having no lungs, he raised his chest up as if he still had them, so that mentally, the fresh air could flow through his empty rib cage. He imagined how the air would feel filling his lungs and cleaning them out after all this time.
The fact that he was able to get one body part out of the rotting wood, creating the small hole in his coffin and giving him a taste of what awaited him outside his prison, fresh air, spurred him on to free himself even more and, eventually, be out of his coffin completely. So, he began to claw furiously at the wood and over time, he made a hole just large enough for his face and neck.
What joy! After all that time in his airless dark stinky box, his face, now all bone, was free and with his eye sockets he imagined the sun…bright and warm on skin, eaten off long ago.. He remembered the blue of the sky and the white of the clouds. He was certain he felt a gentle breeze caress his cheeks.
Life. Once again, after decades, he felt a part of it and amongst all the living things that lived and walked on the earth. It made him feel alive again and he heard himself laugh deeply and loudly. Of course, no sound escaped his mouth or throat for he no longer had either. He didn’t care.
He was on his way to complete freedom and becoming a part of the living. He had his imagination and his memory and that would do him just fine when he was free.
Then, without warning, it was black again. Boards had been put across the opening he had worked so hard to make for his face. “No”, he screamed, but no one heard him for he made no sound.
Once again he was trapped inside his dark rotting coffin. Life had been so close. Now, it was gone. He was dead, a skeleton, again.
After feeling defeated and broken, the skeleton, after awhile realized that his foot was still partially out of the coffin and there was still a hole for fresh air to enter. So, He did still have hope. He made an opening before and he could do it again… in another place in the coffin lid where the boards were not placed. It would take hard work and time, but time was something that was of no consequence to him.
He had hope and hope is, well, life.
~Marsha J. West, Author
This “A Little Tale” (story) and creation may not be copied, reproduced, republished, edited, downloaded, displayed, modified, transmitted, licensed, transferred, sold, stolen, distributed or uploaded in any way without my written permission. My work does not belong to the public domain. Marsha J. West ©all rights reserved.
From Ertl in 1991, these were action figures with interchangeable parts.
The figures were sold in these assortments, not as singles. This was to emphasize the interchanging play value.
The package trays were also vacuformed to the specific figures so the assortments were not random. Once you had all the assortments, you had the complete set and the ability to make "Over 15 Quadrillion Combinations!"
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This series features toys used in the Paprihaven storyline.
I'm playing around with the idea of mobility and strength but still having detail. I intend to plate armor on over-top.
From Ertl in 1991, these were action figures with interchangeable parts.
The figures were sold in these assortments, not as singles. This was to emphasize the interchanging play value.
The package trays were also vacuformed to the specific figures so the assortments were not random. Once you had all the assortments, you had the complete set and the ability to make "Over 15 Quadrillion Combinations!"
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This series features toys used in the Paprihaven storyline.
From Ertl in 1991, these were action figures with interchangeable parts.
The figures were sold in these assortments, not as singles. This was to emphasize the interchanging play value.
The package trays were also vacuformed to the specific figures so the assortments were not random. Once you had all the assortments, you had the complete set and the ability to make "Over 15 Quadrillion Combinations!"
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This series features toys used in the Paprihaven storyline.