Posted October 4, 200717 yr I arrived in town a couple of hours early for Friday evening's Urbanohio.com get-together aboard the Goodtime III, so that I could explore and take a few photos. Actually, I could have used more time; I need to visit the Mather again and pay more attention to taking on-board photos, and I want to see the trolleys stored at the Lakeshore Trolley Museum. It was a beautiful afternoon, though, if quite windy -- just about perfect photo weather. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The William G Mather was launched in 1925 as flagship of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company Fleet, and worked until the end of the 1980 navigation season, transporting mostly iron ore and coal between Duluth and Cleveland. In 1954 the Mather's coal-fired boilers and reciprocating engine were replaced with a single oil-fired boiler and two-stage steam turbine, and in 1964 a Bailey automatic boiler control system and a dual-propeller bow thruster were installed. Burke Lakefront Airport (BKL) Great Lakes Science Center Maritime pigeon
October 4, 200717 yr Beautiful! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 4, 200717 yr Cleveland on a sunny day, and Rob1412 with a camera. What's not to love? Nice job as always, Rob.
October 4, 200717 yr I guess I never really thought that airport runways could be so uneven and hilly…I’m surprised.
October 4, 200717 yr Great Shots! Ignorant question from a Nati boy? I know the wind is higher off the lake than in southern Ohio, but is the windmill in downtown C-land a PR thing or is it a productive source for a certain building, area or what? Could be both. Whatever it is I LOVE IT!
October 4, 200717 yr Great Shots! Ignorant question from a Nati boy? I know the wind is higher off the lake than in southern Ohio, but is the windmill in downtown C-land a PR thing or is it a productive source for a certain building, area or what? Could be both. Whatever it is I LOVE IT! It is both. It is part of the Great Lakes Science Center (pictured above) and it also provides part of the power for the building.
October 4, 200717 yr Here are some facts on the turbine if anyone is interested: http://www.greatscience.com/press/press.php?id=34
October 4, 200717 yr ^ It only supplies a small amount of the power at the Center; if memory serves me correctly, it's about 8% of the overall power consumption at the Center. Given the sheer size of the building and the number of electricity-required exhibits, not to mention a big ol' Omnimax theater, that's still nothing to sneeze at. Equally important, I think it's meant to serve as visual evidence of Cleveland's interest in sustainable energy strategies, both for people out-of-town and to increase consciousness of our locals. The Great Lakes Science Center also uses it as an educational opportunity; they have several exhibits about both the wind turbine and their solar pavilion that teach kids about the concepts of alternative energy and that measure energy production at the present and in months and years past.
October 4, 200717 yr That ship is about ten feet shorter than the Rhodes Tower in Columbus - and similarly-sized ships routinely navigate the tight curves of the Cuyahoga River (which is one of the coolest sights in Cleveland): Great shots, rob!! clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
October 4, 200717 yr The Mather tour is pretty entertaining, definately worth doing if you've never done it before. Excellent job Rob... we expect nothing less!
October 4, 200717 yr MayDay, Thanks for posting the photos of the lakers navigating the Cuyahoga. I haven't been fortunate enough to see that yet, but I'd love to. Most of all, I'd love to be on board one of them! Bowling Green has a set of four Vestas turbines at the Wood County landfill; they're much larger than the one at GLSC. The Bowling Green turbines' rotor blades are 134 feet long, and the assembled units stand about 390 feet to the top of the arc. In a 32mph wind they can produce 1.8 megawatts each, roughly equivalent to typical diesel locomotive. The nacelles that house the generators and carry the turbine blades weigh almost 70 tons each and stand 256 feet above the ground. Because they're so big and so high off the ground, the rotors don't seem be be turning fast, but at 16 rpm the blade tips are going 178 mph! Up close, the sound is amazing as the blades rip through the air. When I drive to Cleveland, I almost always stop to marvel at those beauties.
October 4, 200717 yr Great shots Rob. Great Shots! Ignorant question from a Nati boy? I know the wind is higher off the lake than in southern Ohio, but is the windmill in downtown C-land a PR thing or is it a productive source for a certain building, area or what? Could be both. Whatever it is I LOVE IT! On an unrelated note, there's a wind turbine in Eden Park in Cincinnati. I think its fairly new, but I'm not totally sure.
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