The goal of this week's lab was to use Google Earth to evaluate wind farm locations.
Process Summary:
1. The goal: to choose a great location for a wind farm in the great lakes
2. Produce an annotate google earth placemark of this.
3. Pick 4 spaced out stations to get some information on local wind conditions and review for comparison in determining location of windfarm:
Station
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Away from Water
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Wind Speed m/s
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Will WT work
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Major SR
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GSLM4
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In water
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5.1
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Yes
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NO
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APNM4
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In water
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5.7
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Yes
|
NO
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PRIM4
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In water
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5.1
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Yes
|
NO
|
SBI01
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In water
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6.2
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Yes
|
NO
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Note: WT – wind turbine
a. Go through all the stations and start by checking the Windspeed: Need to find areas close to stations with wind speeds of > 10kts ~ 5.144 m/s for the wind turbines to work. Disregard anything with a WSPD < 10kts.
4. Open up Google Earth and insert the coordinates of the selected meteorological station. Using the criteria determined in your guidance table, narrow down on a preferred location.
5. Determine just how far off shore if off the stations are. Preferrably want a station onshore. The goal is to develop a wind farm onshore. Eliminate those that are too far in shore as the wind may not be the same far on shore, away from wind station.
6. Then look at the one or two locations selected and narrow down based on: Ornithology,
a. Open up the links provided in the laboratory summary and find the selected location on google map, on the links provided that address ornithology.
7. Using the Ruler tool on Google Earth, measure the distance of your proposed wind farm to the nearest dwelling and record. The idea is to determing Noise and Shadow Flicker impacts.
8. Again use the links provided in the lab summary to find on the given map, where your proposed location would be and how far it is from any Shipping Impact as well Tourist Attractions. NOTE: Using the right mouse you can double click to zoom in and using the left mouse you can double click to zoom out.
9. Summarize selection in process summary table and provide justification for selecting the proposed site.
10. Add a Placemark and label it as shown on the map. Be sure to get the coordinates of this for the process summary. Identify the location of the nearest meterology station also using a placemark.
11. Copy the Image: Edit > Copy Image and paste to a word document that has a title, north arrow, your name and date. For this map we left out a legend as it was unnecessary.
12. Have 2 maps, one of the area zoomed in and a second of the area zoomed out to allow you to see a larger view of the nearby areas.
13. Once you save your documents (each on its own separate word document) as a word documents create a pdf of each.
14. Log onto edesktop and paste the copied PDFs to this week’s created folder.
15. Open up in illustrator and load the file. It will show up rotated.
16. Save and export the file as a Jpeg file (only way you can post to blog).
17. Open up Jpeg file and rotate so properly orientated.
18. Select the rectangular shape and draw around the Map to create a neatline.
19. Save and upload to blog as well as submit to drop box.
20. Post to blog and drop box
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