Yes its the final step in their master plan, I've been told by an anonymous source.
As we all know cats long ago took over the moon, since we weren't using it
Posted on 01/01/2021 7:03:15 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
The turning diameter of its rotor is longer than two American football fields end to end. Later models will be taller than any building on the mainland of Western Europe.
The G.E. machines will have a generating capacity that would have been almost unimaginable a decade ago. A single one will be able to turn out 13 megawatts of power, enough to light up a town of roughly 12,000 homes.
The race to build bigger turbines has moved faster than many industry figures foresaw. G.E.’s Haliade-X generates almost 30 times more electricity than the first offshore machines installed off Denmark in 1991.
In coming years, customers are likely to demand even bigger machines, industry executives say. On the other hand, they predict that, just as commercial airliners peaked with the Airbus A380, turbines will reach a point where greater size no longer makes economic sense.
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What is the payback period for the total investment in a single turbine?
What is the life expectancy for a turbine of this design.
Current designs, those numbers 21 years and 20 years, so it's a complete failure.
Disposal of normal wind blades is extremely difficult - these will be flat out impossible - no use for worn out blades, not cost effective to break up, and must be buried whole.
Trust wacko environmentalist to come up with ever larger fails
The windmills are bad for birds but many have their own feral cat communities beneath them. Food just keeps falling out of the sky.
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Cat paradise, free food, giant scratching posts. Eventually the Cats will take over the world on wind mill at a time.
And here I thought they’d be smart enough to use a cylindrical fan design.
Yeah....right.
First big storm will take that thing out.
Sort of like manna for cats :)
Wind turbine = bird filter.
No thanks.
As we all know cats long ago took over the moon, since we weren't using it
Makes sense. Nearly endless supply of loose dirt for burying crap.
The birds are going to love these \s
If these blades are indestructible why do they need to even be replaced?
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Fatigue is the reason they need to be replaced on a regular basis..... and I suspect these bigger ones will have a need to be replaced on an even more frequent basis.
Offshore IWTs also have another problem... the experience with the offshore UK ones is that the blades have much higher erosion rates because of water droplets hitting the blades. I have looked at one application there in particular where they have gone to a much larger size... the blade erosion was so bad that the blades were done in just a bit over a year.
They will fill up the
Wyoming windmill blade landfill quite quickly.
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Yes they will and as I’ve stated elsewhere, this will happen because the blades are bigger and I suspect the frequency of replacement will have to be more often. So much for the concept that for a bit of environmental impact, one gets 20 years of free energy from them.... nowhere close.
We are so f’en stupid. If you want reliable power with minimal environment impact then build modern SAFE nuclear energy plants! Duh.
Only 12,000 homes. When it’s functioning properly.
The ends of these blades move in incredible speeds.
If they hit anything, even rain droplets, it makes damage.
After a while, they are all chewed up.
They can power fans to provide wind to turn the turbine to produce electricity to power fans to provide wind to turn the turbine......
Turtles all the way down - perpetual motion machine.
And...Until they need replacement...Turbine blades in landfill is OK with the enviros I suppose...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqppRC37OgI
We should require all "renewable" energy tech to be recyclable or biodegradable.
That kind of came to an end this past summer when on three different days I passed a semi tractor trailer hauling a windmill blade on the expressway from where I don't know to where I don't know. It was huge, close to a hundred feet long.........
I know they get that big but to drive along side one really hits home on their size
“Actually you leave the plants running even when the wind blows. There is not enough time to start from shut down to generation if a brown out occurs.”
And that’s the cruelest joke of all. You have to maintain baseline power regardless of the renewable potential so whatever they do generate is superfluous.
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