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flagship german offshore wind farm project humiliated by technical faults
breitbart. ^ | Sept 12 | DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS

Posted on 09/14/2014 2:44:47 PM PDT by dennisw

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1 posted on 09/14/2014 2:44:47 PM PDT by dennisw
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German taxpayers on the hook...It’s NOT me for a change!


2 posted on 09/14/2014 2:46:43 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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“Understandably, the project’s investors are becoming increasingly nervous, which is why lawyers are now scrambling to pin the blame elsewhere.”

No, the investors who got in after the initial investors took their money and ran are getting nervous.


3 posted on 09/14/2014 2:53:04 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Manchuria Called. They want their Candidate Back!)
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There is some german word that exists my feelings of watching this from afar, while drinking a beer with a slightly smug smirk of satisfaction...darn, what is the word.....


4 posted on 09/14/2014 2:53:51 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%i)
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To: dennisw

So much for German engineering.


5 posted on 09/14/2014 2:54:14 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins most of the battles. Reality wins ALL the wars.)
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Just use high energy lasers. Piece of cake.(in my minds eye)


6 posted on 09/14/2014 2:54:56 PM PDT by refermech
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To: dsrtsage

Schadenfreude.


7 posted on 09/14/2014 2:56:50 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins most of the battles. Reality wins ALL the wars.)
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To: dennisw

And this is what Owe’Malley wants to bring to Maryland and its coast.


8 posted on 09/14/2014 2:56:59 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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I’ll bet some Polish saboteurs were behind it all!


9 posted on 09/14/2014 2:57:08 PM PDT by warsaw44
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snap-in-froge? 🚢
10 posted on 09/14/2014 2:58:46 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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To: dennisw

Cheney’s wind machine.


11 posted on 09/14/2014 2:58:50 PM PDT by lacrew
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Bush’s fault.


12 posted on 09/14/2014 2:58:58 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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Ted Kennedy was right not to allow the construction of a “wind farm” off Nantucket - but of course, for all the wrong reasons.

Now Ted is dead, so the last major voice against wind farms that would have any impact on the actual construction has been silenced.

The “whop-whop-whop” sound of those turbines turning in the wind has the probability of driving men mad.


13 posted on 09/14/2014 3:00:25 PM PDT by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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My comment from another thread on this issue;
“Here’s a very important point from the article. The power generated is not usable at this time, and no answer is in sight.

“In contrast to a steady one-source input, like from a nuclear or coal-fired power plant, a wind farm has many smaller sources with the output of each constantly varying with conditions like wind direction, wind speed and blade angle. Such variations lead to destabilizing energy-oscillations in the whole system that cannot be handled by the current converters. To make matters worse, the engineers have yet to fully understand the nature of the problem and to come up with any solution for it.”


14 posted on 09/14/2014 3:01:14 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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The Ultimate Dying Machine.


15 posted on 09/14/2014 3:01:52 PM PDT by moovova
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Michael Mann’s fault.


16 posted on 09/14/2014 3:03:42 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Large Batteries make swell flux capacitors.


17 posted on 09/14/2014 3:05:45 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Well, in fairness...

They had to build it quickly. Global Warming might have evaporated the ocean before the could figure out the power transmission problem.


18 posted on 09/14/2014 3:07:16 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

There are wind farms all over the world. Do they all have this problem?


19 posted on 09/14/2014 3:07:46 PM PDT by Mr. Peabody
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Have they published the totals of rare German birds killed or orphaned by this ‘Green Machine’? I didn’t think so.


20 posted on 09/14/2014 3:08:47 PM PDT by lee martell
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