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Wind Power FAIL ( Turbines all Froze Up!....too Cold and Wet)
Watts Up With That? ^ | Feb 15, 2011 | Greg Weston

Posted on 02/17/2011 6:31:23 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Here’s the story:

“We can’t control the weather,” Julie Vitek said in an interview from company headquarters in Houston, Texas. “We’re looking to see if we can cope with it more effectively, through the testing of a couple of techniques.”

She says the conditions in northern New Brunswick have wreaked havoc on the wind farm this winter.

“For us, cold and dry weather is good and that’s what’s typical in the region. Cold and wet weather can be a problem without any warmer days to prompt thawing, which has been the case this year.

“This weather pattern has been particularly challenging.”

Full article here

h/t to a whole bunch of WUWT readers, “TomRude” being the first.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Weather
KEYWORDS: cleanenergy; climatechange; epicfail; globalwarminghoax; windpower
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Yea..they work great.
61 posted on 02/18/2011 9:37:49 AM PST by wyokostur
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Let me hit this one more time.

“We can’t control the weather,” Julie Vitek said in an interview from company headquarters.

We can’t? I thought that the global warmists behind this windmill craze claim that we can.


62 posted on 02/18/2011 10:54:26 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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