Posted on 08/10/2010 10:21:06 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
BERLIN — Germany's Siemens said Tuesday it has won two orders in the United States and Canada to supply wind turbines that experts said were worth around 800 million euros (1.1 billion dollars).
Siemens will supply wind turbines capable of producing 600 megawatts of electricity, enough for 240,000 households, in Ontario. It will also provide 98 turbines for an Oklahoma wind farm, enough for 227 megawatts.
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No one in the US makes these?
paid by who?
For electricity generation, the EIA concludes that solar energy is subsidized to the tune of $24.34 per megawatt hour, wind $23.37 and “clean coal” $29.81. By contrast, normal coal receives 44 cents, natural gas a mere quarter, hydroelectric about 67 cents and nuclear power $1.59.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121055427930584069.html
A large load for Siemens.
Don't underestimate just how far this country has de-industrialized.
The same Siemens that has been caught...again...sending materials to Iran?
Not sure what is more idiotic, this idiot-ridden administration or those continually pushing the ‘green’ agenda..... =.=
It wouldn't be so bad, I guess, if we weren't throwing so much money away already. I mean, how many future generations have we mortgaged already?
“Foreign Firms Dominate Wind Energy in US. Land Stimulus Dollars” (US Tax Payer Dollars Go Overseas)
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/25/foreign-firms-dominate-wind-energy-in-u-s/
“Billions for Green Energy Will Mean Millions of New Jobs… in China”
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/24495
that’s only $4100 per household!
Look on the bright side...no new union jobs.
More jobs for europeans
making wind turbines that will make our landscape look as alien and hideous as that of northern Germany
Union jobs are still jobs...better than no jobs.
GE
Ugh, I travel around Oklahoma at my job frequently and see these things peppering the horizon in the western part of the state, I'm already sick of looking at them.
Vestas wind systems of Denmark is the largest manufacturer in the world of windturbines. Siemens, GE and 2 Chinese companies also make them.
The Europeans are way ahead of us in this technology. The Danes have been using windmills for a 1000 years to keep the North Sea from their country.
There’s a vas deferens between Siemens and the others.
Evergreen Technologies is located at Ft. Devens MA. Governor Deval Patrick (who owns stock in the company) got a few million from the state for them. They are going to manufacture their solar panels in China.
I thought GE was hardwired into the Obama kleptocracy. What went wrong?
Very funny!!
Since some of these are going to Oklahoma, look for Slim Pickens’ or whatever his name is to be involved. He has land rights to a humongous patch of acreage down there, and has been pimping for someone else to pay for putting wind farms on it! As for buying American; I think there are manufacturers here, but with our tax structure they probably can’t compete. Thank you Dear Leader!
There is a truck trailer mfg. co. in South Dakota, near Mitchell if I remember right, that makes trailers for transporting those huge windmill blades around the country. Don’t think they’d be doing that if they didn’t know someone to sell the trailers to. FWIW
Capable of producing 600 MKW when the wind is blowing the right speed. High maintenence and expensive boondoggle to worship the earth. A good coal plant can produce that cheaper and more dependably. Only can’t do it w/Cap & Tax hanging over their heads.
Pray for America
Last I checked, these things could produce between 1.5 and 2.5 MWe each, at their ‘rated speed’.
In the case of the GE 2.5 MWe land turbine (their largest), that wind speed is 33.75 miles per hour.
For some perspective, 33.75 MPH wind speed is a near gale, a Beaufort 7. How often do you think the wind blows at that speed?
That we are still subsidizing the building of these monstrosities is a testament to the failure of our publik ejakashun sistym to convey the most basic concepts of math or physics to our young skulls full of oatmeal.
UK Energy Minister Chris Huhne , a huge nutjob Gaia guy tacitly admitted wind and solar do not work:
“We have absolutely no intention of the lights going out on my watch, I can assure you, and that’s going to be a mix of different technologies precisely because of the uncertainties which exist in the future about which are likely to be most effective.”
Is there an Agenda 21 ping list? If not...these days there should be.
http://www.siemens.com/sustainability/en/understanding/international_guidelines.htm#toc-5
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