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Turbine at Colorado wind farm collapses, burns
CBS Colorado ^ | January 15, 2024 | Logan Smith

Posted on 01/16/2024 6:48:54 AM PST by george76

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1 posted on 01/16/2024 6:48:54 AM PST by george76
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Looks like a couple of joints gone bad.


2 posted on 01/16/2024 6:50:29 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what happened last time we brought in forced labor. Support Abbott's Underground RR.)
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To: george76

It’s OK. The turbine owners got their money for it a long time ago.


3 posted on 01/16/2024 6:50:57 AM PST by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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“...Oil and grease from the generator...”

But, but....it’s supposed to be “clean energy” independent of those horrible, polluting fossil fuels and oils.. But...But....say this cannot be, Joe!!!! /s
BTW, FJB and his merry band of queer flying monkeys....


4 posted on 01/16/2024 6:53:35 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: george76

Those are some BIG names in power, right up there with Edison, Tesla and Insul.
* Invenergy
* ClearWay Energy


5 posted on 01/16/2024 6:54:11 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: george76

Thanks for posting.


6 posted on 01/16/2024 6:55:27 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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7 posted on 01/16/2024 6:57:46 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Drove by a large wind farm yesterday outside of Mojave ca. couple hundred windmills. None turning. No wind. In one of the windiest places in ca. great solution. people are so stupid.


8 posted on 01/16/2024 6:57:51 AM PST by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: PGalt

Thanks


9 posted on 01/16/2024 6:58:11 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: calljack

I’ve driven by the huge wind farms in the Columbia River Valley (OR), Altamont Pass (Northern CA), and Palm Springs many times. It is extremely rare to see many of them turning. Frequently in the Columbia River area I’ll see four or five turning and thousands dead in their tracks.

Guess what is used to back up all those dead windmills? Fossil fuels.

You need to build TWO plants where ONE used to do - the windmills AND a backup plant. Guess what that does to costs!?


10 posted on 01/16/2024 7:01:07 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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Warren Buffett :: wind & solar energy is a bad investment.. They do not make sense without tax credits, subsidies ... That is the only reason to build them.


11 posted on 01/16/2024 7:01:51 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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" the reliable availability of clean energy is relatively new"

"Reliable"..."You keep using that word." "I don't think it means what you think it means."

12 posted on 01/16/2024 7:10:41 AM PST by G Larry ("XFKAT" We can't keep spelling out "X Formerly Known As Twitter"!)
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Shocked that no one has posted this yet, so I will:

That’ll buff right out.


13 posted on 01/16/2024 7:13:24 AM PST by Blennos ( Byaasea)
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To: george76

Bill Clinton…


14 posted on 01/16/2024 7:15:04 AM PST by bigbob
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To: calljack

I’ve seen this for decades. All of these save-the-world wind turbines standing stock still like a field of malign flowers.


15 posted on 01/16/2024 7:20:45 AM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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>>do not make sense without tax credits, subsidies

That was the conclusion of my college paper in 1981; a feasibility study of wind turbines in the Texas High Plains and Rolling Plains.

Always wondered how many times my paper was checked out of the college library at Texas Tech U.

16 posted on 01/16/2024 7:22:01 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: calljack

Ehat you saw were “Windless Turbines”- they don’t turn- they just sit there spoiling the view for everyone. A liberal isn’t happy unless hey spoil something for others- tH3y certainly have achieved their goal with those asinine “Wind” turbines!


17 posted on 01/16/2024 7:24:28 AM PST by Bob434
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In the snow one of the blades can becomes unbalanced making it shake and causing it to strike the platform.

They weren’t turning because the electricity to anti ice the blades would cost too much both to install and to run.

WWG1WGA!


18 posted on 01/16/2024 7:28:35 AM PST by Billyv ( Ephesians 6:11 for we battle not against flesh and blood...Pray for our leaders and nation )
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But, but....it’s supposed to be “clean energy”

That, and it's also renewable energy.

By renewable they mean that they have to renew the whole thing after each catastrophic failure. And while they're doing that, they can also shovel up the dead birds that pile up underneath it.

19 posted on 01/16/2024 7:31:03 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "democracy" like trying to throw your opponent in jail.)
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To: Deaf Smith

EIA data shows intermittent, not reliable : wind & solar met 3% of U.S. energy after $50 billion in subsidizes..

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/06/06/eia-data-shows-wind-solar-met-3-of-u-s-energy-after-50-billion-in-subsidizes/


20 posted on 01/16/2024 7:32:48 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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