Video: Cold keeps Minn. wind turbines from spinning

KSTP-TV ^ | January 28, 2010 | Joe Mazan and Becky Nahm

[Cheap_Hessian]

Wind turbines placed in cities across Minnesota to generate power aren't working because of the cold temperatures.

The Minnesota Municipal Power Association bought 11 turbines for $300,000 each from a company in Palm Springs, Calif.

[Cheap_Hessian]

I am grinning ear to ear.

[MNJohnnie]

HAAAA oh wow that is too funny. Our local political geniuses, who mandates we have these stupid things, did not bother to figure out it gets cold in Minnesota before buying these monstrosities!

[FlingWingFlyer]

LOL! Ain’t “global warming” a *****!

[ridesthemiles]

Those new flourescent lights don’t work in severe cold, either. As for ‘yard lights’ on a ranch or farm, they don’t theow enough of a pattern to be useful, either.

[csvset]

No power? Call 1-Man-Bear-Pig

[Pride in the USA]

Too funny! Those little put-put cars the feds want to make us all drive won’t fare so well in snow and ice either.

[oldironsides]

Blades flew off on some upstate Pennsylvania wind machines. A German company made the things. I wonder if they have resolved that issue?

[oldironsides]

Blades flew off on some upstate Pennsylvania wind machines. A German company made the things. I wonder if they have resolved that issue?

[tflabo]

Minnesotans for Global Warming...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJUFTm6cJXM

[Past Your Eyes]

It gets cold in Minnesota? Who knew?

[Oceander]

Absolutely brilliant. Sounds like the same idiots who worked on the o-rings for the first shuttle that blew up did manage to find another line of work after all.

[Mrs. Don-o]

OMG, it's the consequences of the unintended Law of Unintended Consequences Law.

Brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.

[Past Your Eyes]

I was just talking to a friend in Fla - Citrus County, SW of Ocala. She says in recent times, the climate has indeed changed there. There used to be a lot of citrus grown there (big surprise) but they can’t much any more because it gets too much frost.
Paging algore.

[Right Wing Assault]

The MN folks should sell the Palm Springs some snow plows.

$300,000 to light 35 homes. Some days.

[LadyPilgrim]

All this epa mess will do us in if we don’t stop it. And yes grinning is in order. :-————————)!

[Sawdring]

Engineering problem. All they have to do is find the right hydraulic fluid.

[ApplegateRanch]

Pinging to the unspinning of wind non-power.

[Leo Farnsworth]

Let us not forget: If it gets too warm, wind turbines melt!

[meyer]

Engineering problem. All they have to do is find the right hydraulic fluid.

Or heat it to the proper operating temperature range in the winter.

[jwalsh07]

I’d be willing to make a small wager that when they heat gear oli and hydraulic fluid to operating range they will find they have gear damage already in place.