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Subject: Re: [OM] BROCK
From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 20:56:20 -0400
Now that is a tiddler compared to the height of this thing !

http://www.quebecensaisons.com/ete2009/eole_cap_chat-en.php

found on the south shore of the outer reaches of the Saint Lawrence Seaway in Quebec at ~110 meters high and the world's tallest structure of its kind.

What the write ups don't tell you is that the thing rotated on its axis for a couple of years generating electricity. Then the time came for a lube job of the bearings at ground level. Unfortunately the Quebec engineers who built the thing discovered that the above ground drive structure and rotating vertical shaft were so heavy that it was impossible to raise it at all to do any lubrication. Today it is a relic, a museum piece and a photo op for stray helicopters. A classic example of government waste and incompetence.

Here's a photo of my wife at ground level taken a year or two ago.

http://tinyurl.com/hde5gwm

jh




On 2/10/2017 8:26 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
What is the height of these silos?

This one is about 120 feet.

AG

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