I’m not entirely sure where the land story here starts and stops, but three and a half years ago, I posted this when the tower went up because it intruded into a lot of photos I took. I took these next two photos in January 2012, right after erection but six months before it went on line.
from the Upper Bay
from Lower Newark Bay
And here are two I took last month.
from right across the KVK
from the Con Hook range
Here’s the news: the turbine is fritzed and needs repair or replacement after just three years in spite of an expected life span of 20 years! Here’s a full range of speculation. Of the hundreds of thousands of wind turbines operating in the world, why does this one fritz out?
All photos by Will Van Dorp, with thanks to WS for passing this story along.
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July 28, 2015 at 2:01 pm
WS
There’s always energy Conservation!, Negawatts!
Obviously, Conservation doesn’t have the Wind Turbine’s sex appeal,
or Prime KVK site!
WS
July 29, 2015 at 5:41 am
Rembert
Wind turbine disasters can look more spectacular 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YJuFvjtM0s / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Chtr76jJyA,
but under normal circumstances these machines have – at least here – more problems with enraged neighbours, than with bugs.
It´s funnny to learn, that american everyday speech uses “fritzed” for total destruction. Teaches you something about the long, long shadow of history.
July 29, 2015 at 5:44 am
tugster
rembert- thx for the links. but thx even more for the reflection of the use of the word “fritz,” which i shall now never use again. really, i’d never thought about it! http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fritz
July 29, 2015 at 8:25 am
Rembert
Ah? I would have guessed for a more obvious etymological connection. But after two WW´s the few remaining Fritzes are members of a dying species. Even now, in neo-Biedermeier, Fritz proved to be as unpopular as Adolf :). If you want to provoke an outcry in the more classy german districts, you should use „Konstantined“ or “Philliped”” (biblical names are the latest thing), in the more deprived areas you would achieve the same effect with „Kevin“. If you want to combine that with some gender trouble, choose “Sarahed” or “Rebekkaed”.
December 19, 2016 at 10:42 am
ws
The Replacement OEM Bearings: $298,000.00.
Recently, the Brake shoes needed be replaced…
If Bayonne saves any more money with this wind turbine,
They’ll need to Rob a Bank!