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Recordist's notes
Wind generators are a green face of energy production in this area otherwise dominated by huge opencast brown coal mines and associated power stations. All are owned by the company RWE AG, one of the big five European energy companies. Each wind generator has different sound. This includes the transformer hum.
About the place
Grevenbroich is a town of about 64,779 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. OttoAnna lists 29 field recordings from here.
Recorded nearby
Windgenerator, sound at the door into the tower
Grevenbroich, Germany
Whistling windgenerator
Grevenbroich, Germany
Whistling windgenerator plus transformer hum
Grevenbroich, Germany
Windgenrator, sound on metal door into the tower
Grevenbroich, Germany
Coal train loading from an overhead gantry
Grevenbroich, Germany
Coal streaming from the conveyor belts stops, then starts again
Grevenbroich, Germany
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Whistling windgenerator
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Sources & credits
- “near Allrath, Germany - Wind generator with transformer” by Peter Cusack – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0