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Study: Huge wind turbine farm could cut hurricane wind and storm surge damage
Chronicle ^ | 26 Feb 2014 | Carol Christian

Posted on 02/27/2014 7:02:32 AM PST by shove_it

Edited on 02/27/2014 7:13:41 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: shove_it

They would wipe out the entire bird population that migrate thru there.


61 posted on 02/27/2014 9:51:36 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

If we’d get rid of all the food stamps, you might see the entitlement army scavenging the shredded poultry downstream....


62 posted on 02/27/2014 9:54:46 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: nascarnation

What is the value of a scrap windmill? Are there salvage rights?


63 posted on 02/27/2014 10:27:40 AM PST by DocJhn
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To: Mouton

>> “Sometimes you see some “study” and just know is it nothing but BS” <<

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But some leftie useless eater got paid handsomely for preparing it.
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64 posted on 02/27/2014 10:33:17 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: shove_it

What is the replacement cost of 78,000 large wind turbines?

CC


65 posted on 02/27/2014 10:50:03 AM PST by Captain Compassion
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To: shove_it

78,000 turbines would have been destroyed and the wreckage would have destroyed additional buildings such as universities as the parts from the turbines slammed into them.


66 posted on 02/27/2014 10:53:09 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: shove_it

Yet another Greenie university idiot who has never been through a hurricane.

Science is really going down the terlet.


67 posted on 02/27/2014 11:44:13 AM PST by buffaloguy
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To: shove_it

On coasts prone to hurricanes another solution would be stronger building codes on future construction. Houses and commercial buildings can be made hurricane resistant with concrete-form construction that produces solid concrete walls with voids for wiring and plumbing. Of course this is more expensive than traditional construction but so is building a new house every 15 years.


68 posted on 02/27/2014 1:37:05 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Florida building codes have been upgraded since hurricane Andrew in in 1982 and again after Frances, Jeanne, Wilma, Charley and Katrina in 2004-05. Steel reinforced concrete wall construction, wind rated doors, windows and roofing codes have all been stiffened in coastal areas. Allstate Insurance along with other property insurance companies abandoned Florida after 2005 leaving property owners scrambling for coverage at drastically increased premiums. Flood insurance rates have also gone up. The cost of living in my little piece of paradise on the Space Coast has gone up a bunch but it’s worth it.


69 posted on 02/27/2014 2:25:43 PM PST by shove_it (long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of ObamaÂ’s America)
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To: Mouton; nascarnation

They take energy from the wind. When there are so many they take a lot of energy from the wind maybe creating a condition that changes the jet stream. I’m not a physicist but I’d bet that’s possible.


70 posted on 03/02/2014 9:29:52 PM PST by enduserindy (A painted trash can is still a trash can.)
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