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15 More Windmills (Wind
Turbines) for Buffalo Mountain
2004 September
After the new windmill components spent some
time in Oak Ridge, they
were transported up to the Buffalo Mountain power plant site for
installation. The following photos are from a
visit
during this final phase of construction.
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View of wide road clearing, windmills, shadow and flowers:
Panorama made from 2
photos, using autopanog, hugin, enblend and Gimp (minor touch-up of
central, right blade tip and cloud; distortion of horizon, leaning
tower, at right is artificial).
An
assembled nacelle on stands on the ground, before installation on
tower, offered an opportunity for close-up viewing.
Vestas
890931
The return trip went down a road being used for installing wells and
pipelines for extraction of liquid and gas fossil fuels from the
mountains.
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2002 CARBONITE
View of fossil fuel (oil
and gas) extraction operation with view toward strip-mined mountain.
Relatively speaking, the impact on the environment is not much
different, or arguably less, when compared with the wind turbines.
Panorama made from 3
photos, using autopanog, hugin, enblend and Gimp.
65
psi
Solar panel (right) is used for power for controls and metering for
fossil
fuel business.
Panorama view where
gravel road intersects with Route 116.
Panorama made from 3
photos, using autopanog, hugin, enblend and Gimp.
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In Oak Ridge before transport to power plant site, nacelle
assembly site off Bethel Valley Road, and blade and
tower storage site along railroad tracks.
SACE has had a collection of
photos
showing transport and construction (archive 2007) of the new wind turbines,
from July and August 2004.
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| ~ Sir Thomas Browne, Dedication to Urn-Burial. Chap. v.
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An
assembled nacelle on stands on the ground, before installation on
tower, offered an opportunity for close-up viewing.
Vestas
WARNING 
65
psi 
