more "what's this"...

[totient]

What's this?

I don't expect a name this time, just what kind of object it is.

(sorry cintyber, but the muse strikes when she will.)

Comments

[con-girl.livejournal.com]

wind turbine in AU

[muffyjo]

Well, it's right next door to the Brett Heady's Family Fun Park where you can play putt putt (or Minature Golf). It probably isn't the site of the fortress that was converted to barracks and used in WWII but I'm guessing it might be either the water storage tanks or waste management system.

[http://users.livejournal.com/cgull_/]

That's easy. A big wind turbine.

http://www.rottnestisland.com/en/Environment/Environmental+Initiatives/Wind+Turbine.htm

[iamlisabee.livejournal.com]

the closest I can get is that it might be a bathroom area.

[muffyjo]

More specifically: Australian Renewable Energy Generators
Owner: Rottnest Island Authority
Location: Rottnest Island, Western Australia
Technology: Wind - Turbine
Commissioned: 2004
Capacity: 600 KW
Comments: 46m high wind turbine on Mt Herschel. Commissioned Dec 04 to provide 40% of electricity needs. The power system includes a 2.14MW diesel generator. Also provides power for the desalination plant

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

Dude - that looks suspiciously like the lighthouse and surrounds on Rottnest Island. I was just there on Saturday.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

The thing casting a shadow is a wind turbine?

[drbitch.livejournal.com]

Looks like the Rottnest Island windmill (or perhaps more pedantically "horizontal-axis wind turbine"). I'm amused that the shadow immediately said "windmill" to me, then I went and checked that there was indeed one on the island.

Now I want to go to there, especially given tomorrow's weather.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Looks like a windmill (http://www.panoramio.com/photo/14144869)?

[palmwiz.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's the one. Nice picture.

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

It's a giant quokka nest!

[palmwiz.livejournal.com]

hee hee! This is definitely the most amusing response so far. Congratulations to con_girl who was the first to respond, muffyjo, whose response was (so far) the most precise, and the other folks who answered correctly -- I'll unscreen all the entries on this one in another few hours.

[frotz.livejournal.com]

The thing in the middle, which looks for all the world like a big wind turbine, or the complex in general, or something else? (google("rottnest island", "windmill") does suggest the same as well.)

[sandhawke.livejournal.com]

A defunct salt harvesting operation?

[hotpoint.livejournal.com]

Wind turbine?

[omly.livejournal.com]

well there is a windmill...

[shayde.livejournal.com]

The tower is obviously a windmill. I haven't zoomed out yet, i'm tryign tof igure out it out without zooming.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

wild guess -- is it the rottnest island reverse osmosis desalination plant?

[enheduanna13.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it is, but Rottnest is the best island name ever.

[nw1.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a windmill (which apparently hasn't killed any birds, despite concerns before it opened). It seems to be standing next to (what I would guess would be a) water tank.