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Captured on video: The moment a wind turbine exploded in gales
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| 2/25/2008
Posted on 02/25/2008 6:12:29 AM PST by Uncledave
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posted on
02/25/2008 6:12:32 AM PST
by
Uncledave
To: RedStateRocker; Dementon; eraser2005; Calpernia; DTogo; Maelstrom; Yehuda; babble-on; ...
Renewable Energy Ping Please Freep Mail me if you'd like on/off
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posted on
02/25/2008 6:13:01 AM PST
by
Uncledave
To: Uncledave
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posted on
02/25/2008 6:13:24 AM PST
by
SpinnerWebb
(Islam ... If you can't join them, beat them.)
To: Uncledave
Well here in California the environmentalist are against them because they kill birds. There is no solution that will ever please the leftist. They are all about problems not solutions.
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posted on
02/25/2008 6:16:05 AM PST
by
w1andsodidwe
(Jimmy Carter allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
To: Uncledave
No one here “opposes” wind energy. You’re thinking of Eddie Kennedy.
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posted on
02/25/2008 6:17:05 AM PST
by
subterfuge
(1st choice: Hunter------2nd choice: Thompson-----3rd choice: there is no 3rd choice!)
To: Uncledave
I support wind energy, but I oppose government distortions of the market that encourage its use. I am under no illusions that it could possibly replace fossil fuels or nuclear power as a viable way to run an industrialized economy. However, it has its uses in remote locations where power transmission is impractical, and as a backup power source when the grid fails.
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posted on
02/25/2008 6:17:26 AM PST
by
coloradan
(The US is becoming a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: Uncledave
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posted on
02/25/2008 6:17:26 AM PST
by
egginanest
( "Never interrupt me when I'm trying to interrupt you." -Winston Churchill-)
To: Uncledave
Pretty dramatic but as these things are not usually in any populated area I don’t see it a particularly dangerous either.
I saw on a Discovery channel program about a month ago that they are developing ones that look like a DNA string that is supposed to be able to handle any wind.
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posted on
02/25/2008 6:18:37 AM PST
by
Hazcat
(We won an immigration BATTLE, the WAR is not over. Be ever vigilant.)
To: Uncledave
Well designed wind turbines are supposed to lock off at anything above 35 knots - this one obviously did not!
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posted on
02/25/2008 6:19:45 AM PST
by
melsec
(A Proud Aussie)
To: Uncledave
I respect that many here oppose wind energy, What an asinine statement. I don't know of anyone here who "opposes wind energy".
Lots of us oppose the completely artificial support it gets or wants to get from the taxpayer.
Lots of us think it's not capable of producing mainstream quantities of juice.
Does that make us "opponents" ??
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posted on
02/25/2008 6:21:06 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: w1andsodidwe
More birds are born than there is food for. If a bird runs into an object and dies (like the two who smashed into the side of my little house last year) than other birds will live because the competition for food was eliminated. Leftists amazingly see Darwinism in everything, without understanding the facts of nature his theory sites.
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posted on
02/25/2008 6:21:09 AM PST
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: Uncledave
Put me on your list, please sir.
To: Uncledave
With anything humans make there will be mechanical failures.
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posted on
02/25/2008 6:21:27 AM PST
by
Racer1
To: Uncledave
Thanks Uncledave. I posted this thread and the link on the Michigan (FR) board today after hearing our governor Jenny Grandtheft talk up wind turbines this morning on WJR with Paul W. Smith (the guy who occasionally fill in for Rush). Per usual he was going right along with her. I figure next she’ll be calling for a new department in the state, a Department of Candles. /sarcasm
Dangerously Incompetent BUMP!
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posted on
02/25/2008 6:22:33 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: sit-rep
To: Uncledave
Didn’t a recent episode of “House, MD” start this way?
To: Uncledave
I have no problem with wind turbines as energy source. I lived on a sailboat. However I do reject added taxes and costs on energy that is transfered to, and subsidizes turbine projects. I also reject using the force of law, "must buy energy from" deals that turbine ‘investors’ force on energy consumers. If the turbine energy people want to have multiple, mechanical, intermittent energy generating facilities, that may or may not, when there is or is not electrical demand, and run it as some sort of ‘we may or may not be able to give you power, at no predicable level, at no predictable time’ business. Fine. Good luck to them. Just don’t ask the rest of us, through government force, government schemes, taxes, fines, fees, permits, grants, subsidies or any other method to pay for your economically wacky enterprise.
We had a entire industry that ran on free, no polluting, wind power. Sailing ships. The got replaced because an entire look at the efficiencies and costs proved they were more expensive and less efficient. Same with power generation.
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posted on
02/25/2008 6:24:52 AM PST
by
Leisler
To: Uncledave
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posted on
02/25/2008 6:26:26 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Izzy Dunne
I meant “oppose wind energy in its current support regime”.
better?
To: Uncledave
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posted on
02/25/2008 6:27:10 AM PST
by
Friend_from_the_Frozen_North
(If you are, as Rush would say, "A Glittering Jewel of Colossal Ignorance" don't waste my time...)
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