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When Windmills Don’t Spin, People Expect Some Answers
NY Times ^
| February 5, 2010
| MONICA DAVEY
Posted on 02/05/2010 7:48:37 PM PST by neverdem
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To: Flycatcher
Sic Semper Novus Ordo Fimorum.
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posted on
02/06/2010 12:07:40 AM PST
by
shibumi
(Health and well being for S. and L. - in Jesus name we pray!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Just what we all need up here: Another ignition source for a prairie fire.
For the unitiated, those can burn swathes of land off miles wide and long, and have been known (in Minnesota!) to burn an entire town.
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posted on
02/06/2010 12:46:30 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Nervous Tick
"Thanks for the insight. Especially the “people running grids” part. I hadn’t considered that part of the equation." Typically the people running the grid and the people owning the turbines are different. Many of the owners seem to be Europeans.
To: neverdem
There is a massive windmill farm in IN on the way to Chicago. I happen to know one of the money guys who put the deal together, and he tells me it's a colossal failure---that the investors got taken to the cleaners, because it can't produce nearly enough power to generate (no pun intended) a profit.
And, like ANY wind-powered source, it must have another backup (hydroelectric, coal, nuke, whatever) somewhere else.
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posted on
02/06/2010 5:33:29 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: neverdem
I have traveled considerably in the west and have observed carefully hundreds of wind generators.
Most recently in west Texas I saw hundreds and hundreds. Typically, in any array, at least 10 % are inoperative.
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posted on
02/06/2010 6:15:27 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Tax the poor. Taxes will give them a stake in society)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Fred Nerks; ...
- "Global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases rise every year, and within decades are expected to hit a worrisome atmospheric concentration threshold of 450 parts per million. At that point, there's a high probability that average global temperatures will be at least 2 degrees Celsius higher than they were in 1850 (they're already 1 C higher)." -- Backing down on climate change
Heh. What wankers. Thanks neverdem.
And thanks Ernest for more pings to more topics.
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:27:35 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
To: Nervous Tick
What the heck is wrong with us anyway??!? As a people, we give too much credence to the doomsaying 'Sky is Falling' Chicken Littles.
I'm an old man, and in my lifetime, there's always been something that would destroy the world being pushed by someone.
That's one of the reasons I've paid little attention to the end-of-the-world Climate Doomers. One more fly buzzing around proclaiming "The End is Nigh".
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posted on
02/06/2010 2:40:17 PM PST
by
Ole Okie
To: Nervous Tick
It’s a joke. It’s not reliable. It needs another power plant
to provide back up power. We would be far better off with new nuclear power plants. But the green weinies won’t have it.
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posted on
02/06/2010 2:44:15 PM PST
by
Kozak
(USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
To: Nervous Tick
What the heck is wrong with us anyway??!? As a people, we give too much credence to the doomsaying 'Sky is Falling' Chicken Littles.
I'm an old man, and in my lifetime, there's always been something that would cause the end of the world being pushed by someone.
That's one of the reasons I've paid little attention to the end-of-the-world Climate Doomers. One more fly buzzing around proclaiming "The End is Nigh".
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posted on
02/06/2010 2:50:03 PM PST
by
Ole Okie
To: Ole Okie
Sorry for the double post.
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posted on
02/06/2010 2:51:52 PM PST
by
Ole Okie
To: Nailbiter
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posted on
02/07/2010 3:28:50 PM PST
by
IncPen
(SEC PROSECUTE AL GORE FOR TRADE FRAUD - GIVE BACK THE OSCAR! - GIVE BACK THE NOBEL!)
To: IncPen
I thought at first I was seeing one of John Semmens pieces.
Ever been past the windmill farm between Merrillville and Indy, now ther is a bondoogle.
Never see one of those moving even on nice breezy day in summer
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