Friday, April 14, 2006
Just went for a seminar on Wind Power by Alliant Energy... They were showing us how the WindMills are built... It's really very interesting manz... but not a job that I'd like to do for the rest of my life... Not out in the fields digging trenches and setting up wires... haha~ sounds familiar huh? haha~ Still 3M is more suited for me... hehee~ no out field, no outfield... hee~ but one thing i learnt from them is the vast amount of effort put into just building some 120 WindMills to generate power (about 6000MW a yr) for 96000 households. There're just so much to be done prior to even setting up the windmills, which are a challenge themselves!!! Stuff like building artificial roads so that their tractors and stuff can go through... And before that, gotta clear the trees... And what's appalling is that to just set up that 600 tonnes crane, first, you have to build the roads for it, and next it takes like 10 days to set one up and another 10 to tear one down!!! All in all, it takes like US$100k to just set up that metal bird!!! No wonder construction costs that much... Building such stuff, not only costs $$ but also determination to complete the project... Imagine all those rainy and snowy days... scary... There's one time ice accumulated on one of the blades and when the huge mass of ice crashed down from above, it literally squashed the whole pick-up that is parked below... haha~

Anyway... no, field jobs are not for me... for a while maybe... but not everyday of the yr!!! I'm a lazy guy... haha
posted by Juxling at 8:27 AM

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