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Windmills Tall as Skyscrapers Proposed for Rural Michigan County
Michigan Capitol Confidential ^
| 3/3/2017
| Tom Gantert
Posted on 03/07/2017 8:01:30 AM PST by MichCapCon
A corporation called Apex Clean Energy has proposed building as many as 60 wind turbines in Shiawassee County some up to 600 feet tall. That is about 20 percent higher than the tallest wind turbines currently in Michigan, which are 494 feet tall. Its also just about the same height as The Guardian building, which is listed at 495 feet tall, in downtown Detroit.
The expansion of wind farms into many Michigan communities is being driven by a mandate in the states utility regulation law.
TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: environment; wind
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To: MichCapCon
The expansion of wind farms into many Michigan communities is being driven by a mandate in the states utility regulation law.Not by wise economic decisions.....
To: MichCapCon
Just off the top of my head I thought that ought to be interesting for aircraft navigation.
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03/07/2017 8:04:39 AM PST
by
V_TWIN
To: 17th Miss Regt
Emotions coupled with a healthy dose of economic illiteracy
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posted on
03/07/2017 8:05:40 AM PST
by
cyclotic
(Republicans Are without excuse. Flood the Resolute Desk with sane legislation.)
To: MichCapCon
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posted on
03/07/2017 8:08:00 AM PST
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BigEdLB
(To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
To: MichCapCon
The Bigger they are the Harder they Fall
To: MichCapCon
This windmill energy mandate probably makes as much economic sense as mandating that 5% of Michigan's generated electricity must come from burning methane harvested from cows’ flatulence by Michigan's farmers.
Oops..I should be quiet so I don't give the ‘RATS any ideas.
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03/07/2017 8:09:11 AM PST
by
House Atreides
(Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
To: MichCapCon
Good luck with that.
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posted on
03/07/2017 8:09:19 AM PST
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Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: MichCapCon
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03/07/2017 8:10:24 AM PST
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Ciaphas Cain
(The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
To: cyclotic
Throw in the biggest cause: Lying Liars who constantly Lie to get their way. AGW was used to sell this BS and Repubs were right in there leading the way. Upton did his “due diligence” in Congress and got us the crappy lightbulb mandate. The underlying fraud has been exposed that there is no AGW. Wind farms, Solar farms, take your pic - expensive toxic boondoggles that will never deliver. Even the braindead EU countries have figured this out.
To: Texas Eagle
That clip always intrigued me. Clearly it’s a hand held camera so the videographer must have know it was going to happen. But, how did they know?
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03/07/2017 8:13:50 AM PST
by
raybbr
(That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
To: raybbr
Maybe it was making some sort of noise. Kind of like a bearing going out or something and the person was filming out of curiosity and then edited it down to the catastrophic moment.
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03/07/2017 8:15:47 AM PST
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Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: MichCapCon
What could possible go wrong?
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03/07/2017 8:17:04 AM PST
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Gamecock
(Twitter: What a real democracy looks like.)
To: MichCapCon
To: MichCapCon
Ah, no thank you!
Wind turbines are EXPENSIVE to operate and maintain, especially their penchant for breaking down a lot. I'd rather the spend the money to perfect the liquid fluoride thorium reactor, which uses commonly-found thorium-232 as fuel (thorium is as common as elemental lead!) and produces very little radioactive waste.
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03/07/2017 8:19:59 AM PST
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RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: MichCapCon
From now on, migrating birds better steer clear of Michigan.
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03/07/2017 8:21:17 AM PST
by
Berosus
(I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
To: MichCapCon
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posted on
03/07/2017 8:21:32 AM PST
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blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: MichCapCon
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03/07/2017 8:22:30 AM PST
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Ray76
(DRAIN THE SWAMP)
To: BigEdLB
IMO, the faster they can build these bird-killing monstrosities, the better.
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03/07/2017 8:25:05 AM PST
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alstewartfan
("She got caught between the shadows and the booze." from Marion by Al Stewart)
To: Texas Eagle
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03/07/2017 8:28:26 AM PST
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DungeonMaster
(Love your neighbor as you love yourself.)
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