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World's biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale
https://newatlas.com ^ | August 22, 2021 | Loz Blain

Posted on 08/24/2021 12:18:48 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

Wouldn’t it take tremendous amounts of wind to get that thing going?


21 posted on 08/24/2021 12:32:22 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: EEGator

The Earth’s ecosystem distributes energy using various atmospheric levels of wind currents and ocean depth levels of sea currents.

Siphon off a high enough percent of that energy distribution and climate change will become a very real unintended consequence.


22 posted on 08/24/2021 12:32:35 PM PDT by 3_if_by_Treason (The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.)
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To: Obadiah

Recycling the blades is a work in progress. As of today used blades are still taking up plenty of landfill space.


23 posted on 08/24/2021 12:33:27 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (`)
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To: Obadiah
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills

Here is the Green New Deal:


24 posted on 08/24/2021 12:33:41 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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To: 3_if_by_Treason

Is this the reason China is drowning from all the Rain ?


25 posted on 08/24/2021 12:34:30 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger

And it plays “The East is Red” as it spins.


26 posted on 08/24/2021 12:34:45 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: monkeyshine

You probably start it with an internal combustion engine...
;)


27 posted on 08/24/2021 12:35:40 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Red Badger

How big is the concrete and steel footing for this thing , as big as an apartment building ?


28 posted on 08/24/2021 12:36:01 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: setter; bitt

Already there... Chicom won the bio-fly and propaganda war.
Now, they are waiting for the non-productive residents to die.
Chicom get a ready built country.


29 posted on 08/24/2021 12:36:26 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: 3_if_by_Treason

Climate is so complex that we don’t accurately know the exact variables and what the changes cause through iteration after iteration.

Models are GIGO.


30 posted on 08/24/2021 12:36:49 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Obadiah

Aren’t they fiberglass? China will burn them or drop them in the ocean.


31 posted on 08/24/2021 12:37:01 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: 3_if_by_Treason

Good point.


32 posted on 08/24/2021 12:37:39 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: setter

We’re already their bitch thanks to COVID.


33 posted on 08/24/2021 12:38:06 PM PDT by far sider
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To: Red Badger

I knew MingYang’s brother Ying


34 posted on 08/24/2021 12:39:53 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
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To: Red Badger

What the heck are we gonna do when these things start slowing the rotation of the earth? A day could last 48 hours ! Its gonna get mighty hot during the da6t and mighty cold at night..


35 posted on 08/24/2021 12:40:14 PM PDT by Ikeon (The second amendment isnt there for the govt to interpret! )
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To: butlerweave

I don’t know about that but I took a meteorology class in college and learned that ocean and atmospheric currents play a crucial role in earth’s Macro and Micro climate balance.

Harvesting that energy flow may have significant effects that are difficult to predict or quantify.


36 posted on 08/24/2021 12:42:19 PM PDT by 3_if_by_Treason (The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.)
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To: Red Badger
Just drove past a coal power plant in AZ. 1.03 Gigawatts rain or shine, windy or not. It’s been in operation since the 1960’s. This monstrosity will need to be fully replaced 3 times in the same amount of time.

Commanche peak nuclear plant is 2.4 gigawatts.

Wind a solar is a commie plot to make electricity expensive and scarce.

37 posted on 08/24/2021 12:42:53 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: Red Badger

That’s pulling a lot of energy out of the atmosphere. I wonder how much they contribute to climate change? He he he. Takes lots of oil to build and maintain those.


38 posted on 08/24/2021 12:45:22 PM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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To: EEGator

Dang! You guys always beat me to it. :(

I was going to add to that: Knowing those industrious Chinese, they will start a side business selling “sea bird slurry”...!


39 posted on 08/24/2021 12:45:25 PM PDT by Scarlett156 (Sea Bird Slurry)
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To: NonValueAdded

ISWYDT....................


40 posted on 08/24/2021 12:46:48 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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