Finished my thesis!!!!!

[Dan_574]

congrats cam, have you seen this model,

http://www.ata.org.au/wp-content/art...sh_turbine.pdf

have one on each house.

how long was your thesis.

[Rossluck]

Sincere congratulations mate. I know the feeling: simultaneous release and relief tinged with a strange emptiness, like you've lost your baby.

Don't be like me, I completed a PhD, framed it, hung it on the wall and went out and started a business in a totally unrelated field.

In retrospect, the 3.5 years you've just completed may turn out to be the best years of your life ....

[Iain]

Don't be like me, I completed a PhD, framed it, hung it on the wall and went out and started a business in a totally unrelated field.
....

I know exactly what you are saying but unfortunately it never works out like that (Forensics, now whatever I can find, except that, burnout )

[CameronPotter]

The Hush turbine is an interesting turbine but is quite different from what I have been investigating (as mine is definitely focussed on utility sized windfarming). I saw it at the World Wind Energy Conference last year.

Looks nice too!



Rossluck and Iain, I already have a job lined up in Seattle and it is doing exactly what my thesis was on (well close enough for jazz anyway). I got the job through meeting a guy at a conference. It is actually pretty much the perfect job (but I would have liked to stay in Australia...)

Cam

[Iain]

I used to get to travel to the USA 4 or 5 times a year with work, never any time for play though.
There was always some smart asre in the office who wanted to go when it was announced I was off again, just used to offer them the tickets.
After the first few times got a bit fed up with the travel, on a first name basis with every cloud between Melbourne and wherever I was off to this time.
Would have been nice to live there for a while.
How long do you plan on staying in Seattle?

[Studley 2436]

We lose another good one. Shame there isn't more going on in Australia to keep our top graduates here.

I always wonder Cam with wind turbine design why they just use those three bladed fans? Years and years ago that was something I went through with Auto radiator fans and it was found that putting a fan in front of the radiator with many blades and a collar on the outside much like the mini turbine shown here was a much better way to go. Saved about 10BHP or going electric and getting it to blow through the radiator about 15BHP. Loved it cheap horsepower.

Studley

[CameronPotter]

Well actually, I will be coming back to Australia fairly frequently to keep up contacts here...

The company is looking at expanding into Australia, so I will probably spend a couple of years in the States before coming abck here and opening an office (if everything goes to plan).

So it is actually not all bad. It will be a fun time and a good life experience, but still a bit of a wrench.

Cam

[Iain]

Seattle, watch out for the worst burger joint on the north side of town, 23rd St I think.

[CameronPotter]

Actually, the many bladed design tends to be manufactured such that it is fairly light (and thus weak). This isn't really practical for windfarms. Also the three bladed ones also have more controlability and when you do all the aerodynamic tests on them - you see they are pretty much optimal (or so I am told, definitely not my area of expertise).

There are new techniques and new ideas, but the fact that people keep going back to the three blade model for the large turbines says something I reckon... Still, I am not an expert on this and I have seen some pretty out there designs that claim to be better, but they still need further development.

Cam

[CameronPotter]

Seattle, watch out for the worst burger joint on the north side of town, 23rd St I think.

Cryptic... :confused: Watch out for it as in they are awful; or they are good, but in a bad way; or the clientele????

[Iain]

Cryptic... :confused:

Applies to any town city in USA, so I have been told, never been to Seattle but it will be near a large Ford or Dodge dealership.
Picked it up when I was in Vietnam of some US airmen, was the standard joke about greasy food in all towns
Could well apply here, pick a town, any town

[echnidna]

Lang Lang

[CameronPotter]

Ahhh. I see. I think that the Northern suburbs are actually meant to be the nicer suburbs in Seattle, so maybe it is upside down?

[Iain]

Lang Lang

Palace Hotel, opposite the panel beater, must be good food cos the sign sez so, went there once 4 years ago:mad:

[Bob38S]

Congrats - well done - now for more time to enjoy yourself!
Bob