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Valley Heights
Turbine Project
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| Several months ago, Larry Weibe, a shop teacher at Valley Heights
Secondary School, contacted us about building a wind turbine. He told us
that he was going to be building a straw bale house over the next couple
of years and that he wanted to be off the grid in his new home. He decided
that he wanted to build two turbines and that one of them would be a
perfect project for his grade twelve shop class.
Last September, the class began working on the project and on January
10, 2008, they took the turbine on a road test! We were very lucky to be
able to visit the school and to be involved in this turbine testing
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Here are some pictures of the turbine mounted in the trailer
in behind Larry's truck prior to take off. The turbine was actually
spinning in these pictures. |
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The students are receiving some last minute instructions
from Larry as to how this test is to work as well as some safety
instructions since they will be riding in the back of his truck! |
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One of the students lends a hand as Larry ties the tail into
a furled position for the trip to the test road. |
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Unneeded items are removed for safety.
Craig gets instructions from Larry about where we are going for the
test. |
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Driving to the test road. So far, so good! |
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Untying the tail for the road test. |
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Unfortunately, we were not able to get any pictures while
the test was going on because we were busy driving and video taping, but
we will be adding the video of this test as soon as we can.
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Here we are, back at the school, after a very successful
road test.
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Everyone helps as the turbine is unloaded and taken back
into the shop. |
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More pictures of the turbine being taken back to the shop. |
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Standing the turbine back up in the shop. |
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Back home! |
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Notice the triangular piece of plywood hanging over the
turbine. That is a scale that they made to weigh the blades when they were
making them. Larry said that it worked great! |
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