This should have stand at the beginning:
There is another reason why I was so eager for the bucket wheel excavator. I live in a former surface mining area and an original bucket wheel excavator stands in the middle of a field near my home.
Bucket wheel excavator type SRs 1500
Panoramic view from left:
- Lausitzring (Eurospeedway) with 6.5MW wind wheel / approx. 200m high, behind it a large wind farm (> 90 MW)
- Bucket wheel excavator SRs 1500
- Solar park (150 MW)
- On the far right of the horizon (very small) Brown coal power plant Schwarze Pumpe (1,6 GW)
And: I got a blog entry at hackaday.com. 🙂