[Uncledave]

Renewable Energy Ping

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[w1andsodidwe]

Well here in California the environmentalist are against them because they kill birds. There is no solution that will ever please the leftist. They are all about problems not solutions.

[subterfuge]

No one here “opposes” wind energy. You’re thinking of Eddie Kennedy.

[coloradan]

I support wind energy, but I oppose government distortions of the market that encourage its use. I am under no illusions that it could possibly replace fossil fuels or nuclear power as a viable way to run an industrialized economy. However, it has its uses in remote locations where power transmission is impractical, and as a backup power source when the grid fails.

[egginanest]

That left a mark.....

[Hazcat]

Pretty dramatic but as these things are not usually in any populated area I don’t see it a particularly dangerous either.

I saw on a Discovery channel program about a month ago that they are developing ones that look like a DNA string that is supposed to be able to handle any wind.

[melsec]

Well designed wind turbines are supposed to lock off at anything above 35 knots - this one obviously did not!

[Izzy Dunne]

I respect that many here oppose wind energy,

What an asinine statement. I don't know of anyone here who "opposes wind energy".

Lots of us oppose the completely artificial support it gets or wants to get from the taxpayer.

Lots of us think it's not capable of producing mainstream quantities of juice.

Does that make us "opponents" ??

[Racer1]

With anything humans make there will be mechanical failures.

[PGalt]

Thanks Uncledave. I posted this thread and the link on the Michigan (FR) board today after hearing our governor Jenny Grandtheft talk up wind turbines this morning on WJR with Paul W. Smith (the guy who occasionally fill in for Rush). Per usual he was going right along with her. I figure next she’ll be calling for a new department in the state, a Department of Candles. /sarcasm

Dangerously Incompetent BUMP!

[Larry Lucido]

Check this out!

[Larry Lucido]

Didn’t a recent episode of “House, MD” start this way?

[Leisler]

I have no problem with wind turbines as energy source. I lived on a sailboat. However I do reject added taxes and costs on energy that is transfered to, and subsidizes turbine projects. I also reject using the force of law, "must buy energy from" deals that turbine ‘investors’ force on energy consumers. If the turbine energy people want to have multiple, mechanical, intermittent energy generating facilities, that may or may not, when there is or is not electrical demand, and run it as some sort of ‘we may or may not be able to give you power, at no predicable level, at no predictable time’ business. Fine. Good luck to them. Just don’t ask the rest of us, through government force, government schemes, taxes, fines, fees, permits, grants, subsidies or any other method to pay for your economically wacky enterprise.

We had a entire industry that ran on free, no polluting, wind power. Sailing ships. The got replaced because an entire look at the efficiencies and costs proved they were more expensive and less efficient. Same with power generation.

[thackney]

[Friend_from_the_Frozen_North]

Ping for later...

[TalonDJ]

I respect that many here oppose wind energy

Oppose? I doubt any here do. We just oppose 'this is the silver bullet of energy solution' type retoric that we know to be false. I am all for any type of energy and I am all against my taxes funding fads.

[KarlInOhio]

When winds get too strong, modern machines' blades pitch out of the wind, and the rotor is braked

Brake in high speed wind? I thought you said it was supposed to break in a high speed wind. < /confused engineer mode>

[bboop]

Great pix. That and the ice cap GROWING, I am just sort of getting a great laugh from.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Looks pretty dangerous to be around all the flying debris. They need to put these things in places like Cape Cod Bay to keep them from possibly harming children.

[eureka!]

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