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Painful Lessons for Wind Power
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| 3/24/2011
| Brian Sussman
Posted on 03/26/2011 7:01:11 AM PDT by detective
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Wind energy is extremely expensive and very unreliable. It can only be built if developers are given huge taxpayer subsidies, utility customers are forced to pay above market rates to purchase the electricity and conventional plants are kept ready to back up the wind turbines when they do not operate.
And they are also extremely noisy. They can either be shut off when the wind is blowing like in the article or they must be built far from populated areas which necessitates expensive transmission systems and line loss.
One more way that the liberals and the government are screwing up our country.
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posted on
03/26/2011 7:01:13 AM PDT
by
detective
To: detective
I agree 100% they are a energy loser and will be removed in 10 years.
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posted on
03/26/2011 7:08:39 AM PDT
by
Big Horn
(Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
To: detective
Posted yesterday, the thing must have a design flaw, the large three bladed ones make no noise. They only rotate about one revolution, every four seconds.
To: org.whodat
Can’t use grease on the bearings, not very green. ;)
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posted on
03/26/2011 7:12:12 AM PDT
by
SouthTexas
(Tea time!)
To: detective
I am so sick of having my ever increasing utility bill paying for this kind of crap. If these enviro-nuts want to play with their wind turbine toy, let them do it on their own dime and not mine!
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posted on
03/26/2011 7:13:21 AM PDT
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: detective
Learn the lessons:
Science is not a friend of liberals.
Math is not a friend of liberals.
Truth is not a friend of liberals.
Logic is not a friend of liberals.
And I - most assuredly - am not a friend of liberals.
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posted on
03/26/2011 7:16:37 AM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: detective
The root problem is that greenies/eco-freaks/libtard/progressive/ socialist/commies are fundamentally MALCONTENTS.
No matter what they say they want, or what they get, they will NEVER, EVER be happy or satisfied.
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posted on
03/26/2011 7:20:29 AM PDT
by
RatRipper
(I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
To: SouthTexas
Grease, LOL, they had a show on tv showing them making the three propeller design, bearings run in motor oil, I think there is a built in pump in the transmission at the front.
To: pnh102
Friend, every electrical generating type plant ever build has been tax payer subdized. It would take years to investigate the amount of money that TVA and the army corps of so called engineers have pissed away.
To: org.whodat
Couldn’t resist.
We have hundreds of them down here and I’ve never heard any type of noise from them and as slow as they turn, birds would have to be pretty stupid to fly into them.
They sure screw up the skyline though.
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posted on
03/26/2011 7:37:11 AM PDT
by
SouthTexas
(Tea time!)
To: detective
And this they say is better then drilling for oil:
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posted on
03/26/2011 7:38:32 AM PDT
by
maddog55
(OBAMA, You can't fix stupid...)
To: detective; All
"They (Wind turbines) can either be shut off when the wind is blowing like in the article or they must be built far from populated areas which necessitates expensive transmission systems and line loss."
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posted on
03/26/2011 7:38:52 AM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: maddog55
I feel sorry for the birds in that area.
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posted on
03/26/2011 7:42:48 AM PDT
by
wolfpat
(Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. -- Cicero)
To: SouthTexas
There is several of them in a very, very, very, large area on I65 in Indiana, I stopped to look at them and count the revolutions once, they made no sound. Could not even hear the amps talking to each other.
To: SouthTexas
Cant use grease on the bearings, not very green. ;) That brought back memories of when I was a teen ager, climbing up wind mills with a grease gun in hand. Back in the day, farmers got water to their live stock with those things and they had to be lubricated on a regular basis.
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posted on
03/26/2011 7:52:04 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Of course Obama loves his country. The thing is, Sarah loves mine.)
To: musicman
Friend, those large ones behind bird brain in the picture have rotating props just like a plane, the pitch of the propeller changes to adjust the speed, no matter how hard the wind blows the prop speed stays the same. The twenty++ year old design in the other picture of a field of little mills were useless the day they were built.
To: org.whodat
Friend, every electrical generating type plant ever build has been tax payer subdized. It would take years to investigate the amount of money that TVA and the army corps of so called engineers have pissed away. And we all know that nuclear power is perfectly safe. /sarc
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posted on
03/26/2011 7:55:49 AM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(My dad put his arm around me like that once, to this very day he wears orthopedic shirts.)
To: org.whodat
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posted on
03/26/2011 7:57:04 AM PDT
by
SouthTexas
(Tea time!)
To: org.whodat
I understand the technology has improved from the days of Altamont Pass, but no matter how good the technology, the Achilles’ Heel will always be availability of the primary energy source. The numbers I have seen for wind farm capacity factors range from 7 to 30 percent. That is absolutely unacceptable for baseload capacity. The LOLP for a grid-based system (what most of us use, and I don't see that changing anytime soon) goes through the roof. The existing grid has a major outage about once every 10 years or so. If you've got generating assets with capacity factors between 7 and 30 percent, you're looking at a major outage every month or so, probably with daily reductions like voltage dips, and rotating blackouts.
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posted on
03/26/2011 7:59:25 AM PDT
by
chimera
To: Graybeard58
I have a slight recollection of those days from a time long ago, in a land far away.
Actually was about five miles south of here. :)
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posted on
03/26/2011 8:03:10 AM PDT
by
SouthTexas
(Tea time!)
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