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To: mylife

“...change the weight of the oil in the reduction gears every winter...”

With the installation of “cold weather packages” which provide heating to turbine components such as the gearbox, yaw and pitch motors and battery, some turbines can operate in temperatures down to -30C.

https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/energy-sources-distribution/renewables/wind-energy/wind-energy-cold-climates/7321


26 posted on 02/15/2021 7:39:53 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: polymuser

All common sense engineering to overcome extreme variables.

Still, wind and solar are a joke.


36 posted on 02/15/2021 7:49:59 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: polymuser

I don’t think the blades have anti-ice, that is a problem.


71 posted on 02/15/2021 8:54:18 AM PST by phormer phrog phlyer
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