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Old 09-11-2018, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Legbreaker View Post
When were those wind turbines installed?
After November 1997 would be my guess, therefore they're not there in any of the T2K timelines.
The locks are likely to be the big failure points of the Great Lakes. If maintained there shouldn't be too much of a problem besides those posed by pirates/marauders and the like. If not....
The original turbines were installed around 1995 and comprised around 2 dozen half megawatt turbines located SOUTH of I90 Eastbound. This system produced a whopping (said sarcastically) 2 MW of power. They were replaced in 2007 by 14 FIVE MEGAWATT turbines that average 34 MW of power and can peak at 70 MW of power. A BIG improvement over the original farm. There are MANY more such farms in the Great Lakes Region now. back in the 90's, there were like 3 such facilities with generation capability from 2 to 5 megawatts.

Those early turbines could be salvaged though. They were about 100 to 150 feet high and the turbines had 50ft blades and were this size of a small car. Today's turbines are 266ft high, with 160ft blades and weight in excess of 250 TONS. You aren't moving that without specialized equipment.

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