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Wind turbine catches fire in Texas Panhandle
ktxs.com ^ | June 9, 2017 | Jamie Burch

Posted on 06/12/2017 9:58:20 AM PDT by PROCON

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To: sevlex
Why can’t people learn how to hold their smartphones?

It's the design of the phone. If they would put the sensor in 90 degrees to the phone position, you'd default to horizontal orientation when you held the phone upright.

41 posted on 06/12/2017 10:45:41 AM PDT by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: crz

Here it is from another angle:

http://imgur.com/cLfAhw7


42 posted on 06/12/2017 10:48:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: PROCON

When someone tried to put in a wind farm around my town, I realized that it’s a chain of “flipping”, selling one stage to the next - with nobody having a financial interest in major repairs or demolition/removal at end-of-lifespan. Expect those burned-out hulks to just stay there.


43 posted on 06/12/2017 10:48:35 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: PROCON

This is not a fire. They are testing a new anti bird option. They are purposely emitting smoke to deter birds.


44 posted on 06/12/2017 10:55:01 AM PDT by pas
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To: Starboard

Don’t worry. The greenie losers will somehow figure-out how to make taxpayers pick up the tab for this lunacy. Hold on to your wallet.


45 posted on 06/12/2017 10:55:24 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: PROCON

Looks like it just undid 10 years of saving the planet


46 posted on 06/12/2017 10:56:38 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger

They are supposed to have brakes...


47 posted on 06/12/2017 11:01:06 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: cyclotic

Another article said the local volunteer fire company made the decision to let the fire burn itself out.

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There may have been no other alternative given the height of the structure, falling debris, turning blades, and other dangers. The whole thing will probably be torn down anyhow to fix and replace it.


48 posted on 06/12/2017 11:01:44 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Well, it broke....................


49 posted on 06/12/2017 11:03:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: Starboard

You can see the fumes from the carbon fiber resin burning off into the atmosphere. Those are the yummiest of the petro-chemicals.

I dont think these coal fired windmills are gonna catch on though.


50 posted on 06/12/2017 11:03:54 AM PDT by Delta 21
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To: GOYAKLA

Captain Queeg’s paranoid rants had more basis than the Russian story has. Its a charge in search of evidence.


51 posted on 06/12/2017 11:04:10 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: PROCON

“Reducing” the carbon footprint the old fashion way...


52 posted on 06/12/2017 11:05:23 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: Red Badger

The only one turning is the one burning. LOL


53 posted on 06/12/2017 11:08:07 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard

The brakes worked on all the rest. :)


54 posted on 06/12/2017 11:13:59 AM PDT by Delta 21
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To: eastforker
I see a duck in the clouds behind the smoke.

"AFLAC!"


55 posted on 06/12/2017 11:15:39 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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To: eastforker

LOL! I DO TOO!!!!!


56 posted on 06/12/2017 11:29:50 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: Starboard

Sorry, I guess the sarcasm in my post wasn’t dripping enough


57 posted on 06/12/2017 11:35:10 AM PDT by cyclotic
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To: PROCON
A wind turbine caught fire Wednesday afternoon in the Texas Panhandle, but officials are still working to determine what caused it.

My guess would be excessive heat, but what do I know?

58 posted on 06/12/2017 11:37:21 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Red Badger

Now, that’s what I call Art!
How come the turbines are not moving? They should be helping to disperse the smoke faster throughout the States! They’re not doing that, so...

They’re FIRED!!


59 posted on 06/12/2017 11:38:47 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Starboard

If you look carefully, you will see that TWO are on fire...............


60 posted on 06/12/2017 11:42:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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