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To: DUMBGRUNT

What happens when the wind isn’t blowing?
What happens when it is blowing too hard?


3 posted on 01/01/2021 7:08:44 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

What happens when he blades need to be replaced? They will fill up the
Wyoming windmill blade landfill quite quickly.


6 posted on 01/01/2021 7:11:29 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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If the wind don’t blow then you fire up an evil carbon producing power plant. Shhh. Don’t tell the stoopid watermelons.


10 posted on 01/01/2021 7:13:00 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: EEGator
What happens when the wind isn’t blowing?

Nothing, it just sits there.

What happens when it is blowing too hard?

They feather the blades and decouple the hub from the generator.

14 posted on 01/01/2021 7:15:32 AM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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To: EEGator

They will put them in Washington and outside CNN to ensure that never happens.


22 posted on 01/01/2021 7:28:23 AM PST by pas
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I may be wrong, but at the seashore it always seems to be blowing. As far as too much, they have a limiting speed system which “feathers” the prop.

Offshore is probably the one place where these things work pretty well, unfortunately they are ugly.


25 posted on 01/01/2021 7:33:14 AM PST by nascarnation
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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.


55 posted on 01/01/2021 8:45:35 AM PST by organicchemist (Without the second amendment, the first amendment is just talk)
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