s pump Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 3 hours ago, AKIQPilot said: Drive through Palm Springs, west Texas or many other places and you will see hundreds and hundreds of broke down, dilapidated, non functioning wind turbines. They are littering the landscape in all directions. Many of the companies that owned and operated that equipment are long bankrupt. They took all the subsidies and income from the turbines but couldn't maintain or repair them so they just walked away. Now the property owner or us tax payers are responsible for the clean up Apparently, the 90 degree redirection within the generating head is causing life cycle miscalculations in the 50-65% range. Gearboxes are burning up prematurely and too expensive to fix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washedupmxer Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 The wind farms here in Michigan are generally idle when I pass by If they try to put them out in the big lake I'll be the first in line protesting with violence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted December 23, 2019 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 23, 2019 3 hours ago, Anler said: I hate alot of birds so I say we install more windmills! If those numbers are correct , it is a tiny percentage of what cats kill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted December 23, 2019 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 23, 2019 1 hour ago, Highmark said: Fix the grid. Its completely inefficient. Start there first. https://3dfs.com/articles/wasted-electricity-vs-lost-electricity-in-the-u-s-electrical-grid/12/2015 The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory releases the Energy Flow Chart for the U.S. every year. The latest Energy Flow Chart is here. As we have highlighted previously, the U.S. loses more than 67.8% of the electricity that is generated in our Grid. These losses are categorized as “Rejected Energy.” Interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ford_428cj Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 43 minutes ago, NaturallyAspirated said: Looks like the farm existed beyond the expected lifespan, and will get a large amount of recyclable materials from dismantle. Nice! Neal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revkevsdi Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 Is it better in print or with the “stable genius” saying it? not sure why people say the world is laughing at the US. “I never understood wind,” Trump said. “I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody. I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany mostly, very few made here, almost none, but they are manufactured, tremendous — if you are into this — tremendous fumes and gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right?” “So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint, fumes are spewing into the air, right spewing, whether it is China or Germany, is going into the air,” he continued. “A windmill will kill many bald eagles,” Trump continued. “After a certain number, they make you turn the windmill off, that is true. By the way, they make you turn it off. And yet, if you killed one, they put you in jail. That is OK. But why is it OK for windmills to destroy the bird population?” i Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Danger Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 4 hours ago, NaturallyAspirated said: They are, @AKIQPilot and @Carlos Danger are full of shit. Neal Right Neal I just spent ten years going to power plants around the country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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