The DKIT Wind Turbine

**Timbuk2**

Do you think the new DKIT Wind Turbine looks good or what????
Come on, leave your opinion. It is more interesting with them.

dundalk cailin

heard good reports havent seen it myself yet though

Irjudge1

I think it looks great. Coming into Dundalk from the Southern Link Road it looks really good especially in good weather and there is a sheen off the blades.

Wertz

Looks great...especially coming toward the bypass from JJB dome at around sunset. Gonna be a noisy bastard when they turn it on, which looks to be soon....

dundalk cailin

sounds good!

**Timbuk2**

the turbine is being turned on and off at the moment beacuse Danish Inspectors are examining it doing tests like Overspeed Tests and stuff.

It will be shut down until Monday 24th 4pm when Dermot Ahern will officially open it.

The windmill isn't at all noisy, not one bit!!!!!!!!!! But wouldn't you expect to be quiet seen as it cost €1m!!!!

And it also swivels round in the direction of the wind for maximum effect.:cool:

carpothepunk

Its looks grand,lovely coming in from ardee

**Timbuk2**

Did you know: It is the tallest structure in Dundalk. Each blade is 25m long and the "pole" of it is 60m long giving a total of 85m high. It is the biggest college turbine in the WORLD!!!!!!!!

Wertz

**Timbuk2** wrote:

The windmill isn't at all noisy, not one bit!!!!!!!!!! But wouldn't you expect to be quiet seen as it cost €1m!!!!

I've seen (and heard) the similarly designed ones in the UK....it's impossible for them not to be noisy, especially when they get up to max revs.
In this case it's a single turbine so it won't be as bad as the field of 20-odd I witnessed but I guarantee you'll still be able to hear the blades cutting the air...

**Timbuk2**

Wertz wrote:

I've seen (and heard) the similarly designed ones in the UK....it's impossible for them not to be noisy, especially when they get up to max revs.
In this case it's a single turbine so it won't be as bad as the field of 20-odd I witnessed but I guarantee you'll still be able to hear the blades cutting the air...

Well, you can a wee bit hear the blades cutting the air, and a soft gentle hum of the motor inside, but in wind-turbine terms, this is almost silent.

If you were in the Nursing Building (The new building in front of the turbine) you wouldn't hear anything.

I was once in the west of Ireland and there were a few wind farms (where you have about 20 wind-turbines halfway up a mountain), and they were very noisy. You could hear a "sch-oooo-m" sound of them going round. But they are smaller. cheaper versions of the DKIT turbine.

cournioni

I live quite close to the same type of wind turbines (12 of them) between Shercock and Bailieborough in Co. Cavan, and I have to say I pity whoever is living close to the turbine in Dundalk. They are persistantly noisy, and even more so when the turbine is changing direction to suit the direction of the wind.

I've a few friends in college heights who won't be too happy once it is working.

woody

it scared the sh1t outta me the first time I saw it, was driving in from the motorway and saw this huge thingy!:p But I am all for Wind turbines there is a small one up at the animal Compound on the M1

**Timbuk2**

I like to see wind turbines because it means that we are actually doing something about air pollution and future fossil fuel shortage!!

dundalk cailin

makes a change i s'pose

TheBigLebowski

Here's some pictures...

http://www.dundalkfm.com/index.php?id=236

europerson

The turbine looks really cool, and it's a great idea to power the DKIT campus with it. I feel that many other large building projects would benefit from the use of such turbines.

**Timbuk2**

Guess what....

I got a front seat view of it... from the inside!!!!!!!!:D

Couldn't go up to the top though, have to wear a harness and everything

But I got to see the computer that controls it all down bottom.
It shows the turbine direction, windspeed and direction, blade pitch (the blades pitch to stop it from going over speed). It is on the 10-day test now.

It is a noisy fcker from the inside, big rumbling from the generator, but you can't hear the generator from outside.

If you want to read about and see pictures, see www.dundalkonline.net, the only all-dundalk site on the web!!!

MonkeyTennis

i thought the turbine doesnt make any noise

**Timbuk2**

outside you can not hear noise, only a small sound of blades cutting the wind. Inside when you are 2 meters from the generator it is noisy.

Dundalk Online

i like it