Today I felt completely exhausted, frozen and on the edge of getting a cold. The hot coffee at breakfast helped a little and the sun was out, so things were looking up.
I was very excited about today's visit! Today we got to tour the wind farm at Osório. I was very impressed with this company, their push for innovation and high standards for their company and it's purpose. They operate in Spain, Canada and Brazil and are in the progress of expanding to Australia. I was extremely impressed with their use of cutting edge direct drive technology in their wind turbines. This type of turbine, as opposed to other commonly used turbines, provides multiple benefits over other models. He direct drive turbine reduces y sound pollution, increases the lifetime of the turbine, increases the speed of rotation and reduces environmental impacts and safety hazards by eliminating the use of oil in the turbine.
Not only was the tour informative and eye opening, it was also beautiful. The 125 giant windmills present at this site location specifically, were scattered through out the farm land and seemed to coexist nicely with the grazing cattle and wild geese.
After the site visit we stopped for lunch and were back on the road. Tonight we're back in Florianópolis until Saturday. I'm excited to see what the rest of the trip has in store for us.
Until tomorrow,
Jess
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