Scout Moor Windfarm. by JeffG7BRJ
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The giant turbines at England's largest onshore winfarm have finally begun turning. The controversial 'windmills' of the £50M(million UK Pounds) project on Scout Moor above Rochdale have already generated more than 4,000 megawatt hours of electricity. Developer Peel Energy has now turned on all 26 of the 325 feet(99.06 meters) high turbines.
The farm will now generate enough power for the average needs of 40,000 homes a year, adding 65 megawatts to the National Grid via a new sub station near Ashworth Moor reservoir.
The turbines have changed the landscape over a two mile stretch on the border of Rossendale and Rochdale and changed the face of Greater Manchester's contribution to reducing climate change
The above information came from 'The Rochdale Observer'.
Please zoom this image is large, 9 photographs have been stiched, before reducing the image it was 333mb. at first it would not save the jpeg image as there was not enough memory, I have 4gig of ram and a 650 gig hard drive plus three others smaller.
Taken today at around 14:00 hrs, the moor was packed out as they were having an open day with a bbq. I couldn't get near to the site there was well over two hundred cars parked along the road. I went away from the site to be able to get these shots, I was about half of a mile away. If you zoom you may be able to see people snaking along pathways going up to the top of the moor.
Thanks for stopping by for a look and for any comments you care to make.
Ronnie, I was using that device I told you about, it should be OK with a bit more practice.
Have a nice weekend.
Comments (35)
PD154
Oh yes Jeff the gizmo piad off, and I have ordered mine:)...great job here Jeff!
Ionel
Excellently done pano work, Jeff! The view is beautiful and interesting!!!
Fred255
Great one Jeff good stitching. I did one in work the other day it consisted on 50 photos! The file size was 1.25GB My work PC creaked! When printed out on a large format plotter the bit of paper was 24m long!
Alz2008
Well done jeffers great pano and landscape mate, you get addicted to them after a while but it really is fun, great stitching too excellent work well done..
JeffG7BRJ
I kid you not, there are more people than sheep on that moor today.
durleybeachbum
Superb!! FANTASTIC on zoom! I have no idea how to do this, and I probably don't need to!
beachzz
There are several of these "farms" all over California and I am always amazed at how huge they are. When you see them from a distance, they look for all the world like some kind of prehistoric beasts---ZOOM is spectacular--great shots!!
MrsRatbag
This is amazing, it's like being there! Incredible work!
jocko500
done wonderful on these 9 photos. looking for that guy that fights with the wind mills but guess he took a holiday on this day lol just a joke
mermaid
oh my thats a lot of them.... fine pano
artaddict2
I think people round here where we live Jeff would pay good money for this magnificent Pano you have created mate. I can't tell you how impressed I am by it. I would certainly be proud of taking this one myself. And a great write-up with credit to the Rochdale Observer, a very diplomatic and unbiased view I might add ! BRILLIANT!
Seaview123
Good looking picture! Nice work.
hipps13
Hi Jeff me grandpa use to make windmills so proud and tall brings a memory wonderful capture I did stay awhile just to look and see and found so much sweet smile to you warm hug, Linda
auntietk
Zoom is wonderful! Excellent work.
danob
Bravo Jeff great job! I must say I prefer them to some of the uglier power sources we can have these days
LudyMelltSekher
Hello my dear friend, Very Beautiful photography. Excellent!!Congratulations !!A million stars***Happy weekend. Giant kiss in Your heart.Luminous blesing. Ludy
sylki
WOW Jeff!! Great work on the panorama shots!!! Fantastic photos, super clarity and lighting. There are a lot of people wandering around!!
kimariehere
fabulous pano !! we have these a few hours north of my house and i have always wanted to drive up and shoot them but havnt gotten around to it you did a beautiful work with this !!!!
kgb224
Excellent capture and work Jeff.I agree with Danob it may be ugly for the eye but we must do something to stop the pollution.It is a pity that i am working at a coal fired power station.I am one that loves nature as you can see in my pictures that i capture.
Richardphotos
everytime I go to Oklahoma I see the blades on the highway.outstanding panorama and beautiful countryside.they maybe an eyesore to some people but I like them
SSoffia
WOW !!!! EXCELLENT PANORAMA & BEAUTIFUL :)
MrsLubner
And do you have the same problem we have? We have been shutting down a great many of ours because birds keep getting killed flying into them. I see this as one of the great, mostly untapped sources of power and I sure hope they get the bugs (or birds in some cases) worked out of them soon so we can test the true potential of wind power.
huismus
It looks like Holland in the north. Beautiful capture Jeff! And I thank you.
junge1
Great pano Jeff and great information. It really looks super in zoom. These windmills may have changed the landscape, but that doesn't bother me, just as it didn't bother me 40-50 years ago to see all the smoke-belching stacks. Windmills is one of the ways of the future. On several occassions when my brother Wolfgang and I drove through the countryside around Berlin, we noticed that there were many windmills on private farming property. Wolfgang explained to me that the farmer who has these energy producing mills on his property actually is making some money from it. Thanks for the kind comments on my recent illness. I was lucky that it was discovered early. The danger with cancer is that if it goes undetected it is often too late to cure once it has spread. I did not go and see Wolfgang, it is too expensive in Europe for me. I spent last Christmas with my cousin Gundi in Oberammergau when we went to Mt. Blanc and other places. Last time in Berlin with Wolfgang was in September 2006 when he and I went to see the new Hauptbahnhof, the marathon and went to the Spreewald.
mickuk50
now this is what i call a pic jeff .i`ve ordered mine aswell ,should get it in a couple of days .this is a beauty especially zoomed .a real cracker mate :o) mick
pixelmeister
Great panorama! Very nice!
ledwolorz
Fantastic panorama .beautiful capture.
stevey3d
Superb image Jeff! I am very interested to know about this wonderful device! Excellent! 5+
CavalierLady
Oh I missed this one! What an impressive image and great job stitching them all together! They have some rather large ones like this in Texas, as well. In a way they ruin the landscape, but in a way, it's better to think of better ways for our future like this right here.
tizjezzme
fantastic pano here Jeff... !!