Mawson Antarctic research station relying solely on diesel after wind turbine crashes to ground
Hopefully, since they're going into the Antarctic summer, they can get a replacement installed before next winter.
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An Australian Antarctic research station is now relying solely on diesel power generation after a wind turbine collapsed overnight.
Expeditioners at Mawson station discovered the head of the 30-metre Enercon E30 turbine had fallen to the ground about 9:00pm on Tuesday.
The Australian Antarctic Division's general manager of support and operations, Dr Rob Wooding, said he was thankful no-one was injured in the incident.
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-08/mawson-antarctic-wind-turbine-failure-investigated/9130554?pfmredir=sm
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The reactor was built and operated in the 1950's; it wasn't a great reactor, being primitive, but it was preferable to the tens of thousands of oil drums now littering Antarctica.
When the reactors were hauled away, because of the idiot treaty declaring that so called "nuclear waste" could not be stored in Antarctica this was the result:
Interestingly, this picture actually comes from the anti-nuke morons at Greenpeace, who are in fact responsible for these drums because the number of people in their moron society who have actually taken a science or engineering course is zero.
Soviet lighthouses, also constructed in the 1950s in the arctic operated on thermoelectric systems powered by strontium-90, a fission product, before stupid people in the anti-nuke cults declared strontium-90 "nuclear waste."
The Soviet light beacons operated on thermoelectric devices, which had low efficiency compared to modern developments in thermoelectrics, which have orders of magnitude higher Seeback Coefficients.
Were it not for stupid people who hate nuclear science because they don't know any, modern thermoelectrics operating on nuclear decay could certainly power remote stations reliably, similar to the way that thermoelectric devices operating on nuclear decay powered the Cassini mission that anti-nuke, anti-science people hate.
In the 1950's, we didn't have very much Sr-90. We have plenty of it now, and could easily process it into its insoluble titanate and power as many remote research stations as we might want to power.
Unfortunately, people with a fetish for the failed and useless wind industry have succeeded in selling their horseshit so effectively as to make the situation found today at McMurdo inevitable for the entire planet; dependency on fossil fuels.
The Greenpeace picture of oil drums rotting in Antarctica - for which the Greenpeace mentality is responsible - is a picture of the planet as a whole.
Dangerous fossil fuel waste is accumulating at a record pace, because the crap in Antarctica - I'm talking about the piece of shit wind turbine - is being spread over the entire planet, with results that are a crime against all future generations.
