wind turbine Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/wind-turbine/ Mechanically-minded travel Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:18:25 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 EOL Centre éolien – Offshore Wind Farm Visitor Centre in Saint-Nazaire https://mechtraveller.com/2022/10/eol-centre-eolien-offshore-wind-farm-visitor-centre-in-saint-nazaire/ https://mechtraveller.com/2022/10/eol-centre-eolien-offshore-wind-farm-visitor-centre-in-saint-nazaire/#respond Fri, 28 Oct 2022 14:54:18 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=8206 The EOL Centre éolien – Offshore Wind Farm Visitor Centre in Saint-Nazaire is the first and only such centre in France. It opened in 2017 and is designed very much with family and school groups in mind. The centre explains how wind turbines and wind farms work using hands-on immersive displays and experiences. France’s first […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2022/10/eol-centre-eolien-offshore-wind-farm-visitor-centre-in-saint-nazaire/feed/ 0 What’s inside a wind turbine https://mechtraveller.com/2016/08/whats-inside-wind-turbine/ https://mechtraveller.com/2016/08/whats-inside-wind-turbine/#respond Sun, 07 Aug 2016 15:13:42 +0000 http://mechtraveller.com/?p=1685 Ever wondered what a wind turbine looks like inside? And important questions like: How do you climb to the top? How much space is there up there? Why don’t the cables twist as it turns around? Here are the answers, and delivered in a really chirpy, no-nonsense matter-of-fact way! A great video from USVAR who […]

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