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CA: Out of control windmill prompts highway closures
LA Daily News ^
| 5/3/09
Posted on 05/03/2009 5:21:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: MainFrame65
I thought the blades were fixed pitch and governor controlled but I would think that the blades could be adjusted for wind speed as well ... something to research ...they do have brakes since I’ve seen some turning and some not. Also, they could be directional controlled - pointed into the wind ...
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posted on
05/03/2009 6:02:08 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: SlowBoat407
Yeppers, that too ... when will RINO’s and Dem/Libs realize you can tax just so much before the economy simply shuts down ...people buy just the bare necessities ....
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posted on
05/03/2009 6:03:50 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: NormsRevenge
Where the H is Don Quixote when you need him?
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posted on
05/03/2009 6:04:22 PM PDT
by
djf
(Live quiet. Dream loud.)
To: NormsRevenge
Let’s hear if for safer power like nukes.
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posted on
05/03/2009 6:10:17 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(Worse than we could have imagined.)
To: traditional1
Nothing like a beautiful landscape (as per the Greenies), dotted with inefficient, taxpayer-subsidized, 30% availability wind turbines!
They need to locate these where they'll really do some good. My first thought would be the inside the Beltway D.C.
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posted on
05/03/2009 6:22:54 PM PDT
by
ThomasSawyer
(Democratic Underground: Proof that anyone can figure out how to use a computer.)
To: stylecouncilor
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posted on
05/03/2009 6:27:26 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: NormsRevenge
Every time I read about one of these I’m reminded of the article in the book “The 80’s, a look back at the tumultuous decade 1980 to 1989”, published in 1979. It’s a satirical story about a windmill that goes out of control on Timbalier Island, ripping and slashing its way through homes and racking up a huge death toll, and people are left wondering about the cost of wind energy.
That book is full of such prescient stories.
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posted on
05/03/2009 6:47:08 PM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(To those crying racism: Sometimes it's not about you.)
To: coloradan
I got some wind for him, right here.
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posted on
05/03/2009 7:30:51 PM PDT
by
Yankee
To: NormsRevenge
A broken blade could literally go into orbit.
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posted on
05/03/2009 7:33:03 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: C210N
Too late.
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posted on
05/03/2009 7:44:05 PM PDT
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
05/04/2009 11:36:35 AM PDT
by
Leonard210
(Tagline? We don't need no stinkin' tagliine.)
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