Posted on 07/16/2013 12:42:39 PM PDT by neverdem
I heard the other day the astounding figure that there were something like 14,000 abandoned wind turbines in the U.S.
Once the subsidies run out the companies just quit maintaining them and they rust away.
Maybe the long tall vertical tubes can be turned into grain storage, or houses, or restaurants serving polish dogs.
Merely from an aesthetic point of view, I find them no more disturbing than silos, homes or barns. From an economic point of view they are a disaster.
This is bulls#it but there is one element of truth - subsidies are no longer needed. Modern utility scale wind turbines can make electricity at a parity cost without subsidies and even industry leaders have said so publicly. Cut the subsidies, but use the rest of this nonsense to line the litter pan, it’s as scientific as global warming.
Excellent piece. Bkmk
Sane people would have taken all that into consideration before building the damn things.
Obviously, their sanity was overruled by their fanatical devotion to the latest fad of the enviroment-wackos.
Besides, they kill birds.
Wind and solar power is a good idea for individual homes and farms. Mass generation is an Agenda 21 boondoggle designed to enrich a few insiders, deindustrialize the country, and deprive the public of affordable power.
Don't count on it. These things are the cathedrals of the Green-Left, and political expediency will dictate that wind subsidies continue for a very long time.
Drive down the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. The site of miles of these on river cliffs is disturbing..
They are about as ugly as mosques.
I saw two that were actually working the other day.
turn them into low rent housing
I drove through Iowa back in May and saw miles and miles of these...not a one was turning. I am not exaggerating.
It wasn’t’t that the wind was too weak or strong, as far as I could tell. Heck, maybe they order them to stop during some bird migration season or something.
Yep. And the farmer is left with a broken windmill in his field.
What in particular do you find objectionable? Is it info related to durability, longevity or production?
And I thought cell towers poking up in beautiful pristine landscapes were awful.
Now these disgusting scourges.
Nailed it!
Just finished a vacation where we drove from Denver, CO to Houston, TX.
We saw hundreds and hundreds of these windmills. Huge things, twirling in the winds and looking pretty impressive.
I am concerned with the physics related to the forces of the wind pushing on the blades.
If I remember my HS physics correctly, we must conserve energy and momentum during the conversion of kinetic wind energy.
The winds are pushing on the fan blades causing them to rotate and there is also a loss of energy in the wind because instead of blowing freely, the wind energy is converted to mechanical energy.
There is also an equal and opposite force coming back from the blades, the tower and finally the earth itself.
Therefore, my theory is, the rotation of the earth may be disrupted in the long term plan and we all go flying into space since the Earth is no longer rotating on its axis.
We’re DOOMED!!
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