Talk:Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station

Copy editing

The problem with this potentially good article is not that it is too technical, actually, it is written quite well, but that it assumes too much insider knowledge. The target audience (someone who wants to learn something) was not taken into account.

I tried to fill the copy edit request, but had to give it up. The text is almost incomprehensible to anyone who is not familiar with Bavarian geography, for example, so a map of the area is definitely required. Who is to know that the Jaden is a river? What is Niedernach? What is the geographical relationship of the Rissbach river to Walchensee? Etc. etc. etc. It needs more internal links to help the reader who does not know, for example what a penstock is, etc. etc. There are lots of distance values in meters in parentheses but who knows what that refers to, the length of something or other? the altitude of something or other? The last section is downright obscure. What does the reader mean by refering to "the powerplant"? The one that existed, or one to be built to serve the wind tunnel? Who knows, except the author. --Remotelysensed (talk) 17:16, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

missing technical

I've searched all the links I can find and even translated the German web sites and still can't find anything about the pumping capacity. I assume they use the four Francis water turbines, but I can't find a source to confirm that. Ideas? Dougmcdonell (talk) 04:46, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

There are no pumps. The link in the sentence “It is a storage power station that is fed …” is not correct. The Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station is a “storage power station” but the link leads to “Pumped-storage hydroelectricity”. There are several inlet rivers/brooks which continuously feed the lake “Walschensee”. This water is stored and may be used for peak electricity power production during several hours per day. “Storage” does not only mean storage within a day but also storage within a year. The level of the Walchensee may vary several meters within a year. The waters of the snowmelt in the springtime may be used to produce electricity later in the summer.46.85.19.45 (talk) 07:07, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

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The Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station is a storage power station in Bavaria, Germany. The turbines, seen here, are fed by water from the Walchensee which is then released into the Kochelsee. The power station uses the hydraulic head of about 200 metres (660 ft) between the two natural lakes, and water from the Rißbach river is also used to augment the supply. The installed capacity is 124 MW with an annual production of 300 GWh; this is one of the largest of such power plants in Germany.

Photograph credit: Diego Delso

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