Ravenshoe wind farm
January 2020
Just before you drive into Ravenshoe from Atherton you will see a wind farm on the the left hand side. You will not miss it and they have a viewing area.
Warning signs in the carpark.
In the carpark area I think these signs are there for a reason. If you feel like sneaking off into the bushes to relieve yourself you may want to think again. My guess is that there are Eastern brown snakes in there.
The maintenance door at the base reveals the scale of these turbines.
It is hard to get an idea of how large these turbines are but the fact that you can walk up the inside of them and around a balcony type area at the top should give you some idea.
A cloud blows in to the fan while I am there.
They are so high that if you wait long enough on the right day you might see a cloud blow right into one. When I first showed this photo to my wife she thought it had blown up.
When we visited Japan last year a relative of mine had a company that was installing these in Kyushu in a private enterprise and Government partnership.
Japanese wind farms and skies compared
Left to right, my sister in law, Brother in law’s brother and my wife. Kagoshima, Japan 2019.
According to my wife, she was told that the shape of the blade is critical to how much noise the turbines make. I must say that when we visited the site in Japan it was a lot quieter than the farm at Ravenshoe. You can notice a slight difference in the shape of the blades with the ones in Japan.
Looking up to the wind farm from the coast.
On that same day in Japan you could see the pollution from China coming towards us in the sky like a storm. By the time we had driven from the windfarm in the hills down to the seaside the sky was pretty dirty.
There are some beautiful places in Japan but most of the time we have the prettier skies where I live, bushfires excluded :(