Posted on 03/02/2011 10:03:47 AM PST by PDMiller
Have you noticed many of the new windmills along Route 5 are not working?
This isn't the first time they've had mechanical problems, and we managed to dig up some hard numbers on just how much electricity they actually are generating.
In its first year, Steelwinds had to replace all of the gear boxes in the eight turbines. The next year, the blades had to be fixed. And for this entire winter, only half of the Lackawanna windmills have been working at any given time.
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Can anything good come out of socialism?..
I can't think of anything.
If windmills were the way to go, Holland would be a world power by now.
What they discovered was the reason they kill birds is their color. The white or light gray attract bugs and the birds come close to eat the bugs but get smacked down instead.
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Meanwhile, Lake Erie keeps flowing 24/7 into the Niagara River that turns one of the largest electric producers(Niagara Mohawk)in the US and Canada. It produces some of the cheapest electricity/kilowatt in the world.
Whats next, build windmills next to Hoover Dam ?
Of course, the Wind turbine boosters vehemently deny that the things kill any birds.
Interesting. Your ‘expert’ is blogger Jenn. No thanks.
Any bird that is stupid enough to fly into a slowly turning windmill deserves to have its genes removed from the gene pool.
Well, they don’t have to worry about it now.
Unless they fly into the concrete base and mounting studs.
I haven’t done the math, but I would guess the outer portions of those blades are anything but ‘slowly moving’ when in motion, even in a modest wind.
Because they Lacka the wind.
As an example, if the blades are 100’ long and rotate 1X per minute, the outer tips are moving 14.28 MPH. I’m guessing they rotate a bit faster than 1/minute. If they are going 6X/minute then that would translate into a tip speed of over 85 MPH. Enough to catch a bird chasing a meal off guard, I’m guessing.
“Why aren’t Lackawanna windmills turning?”
In 2009/10 I made numerous border crossings between Caledonia and the Baja. Towards the border on the California side are numerous windmills. I never saw one of them turning. They face the Pacific ocean, but not one turned. Also, along that route are huge power lines. At the border the lines terminate on the Mexican side at two power plants built within a stone’s throw of the California border. (This would appear to be the very same air, although there’s a border fence to keep out all that bad, polluted Mexican power plan air.) I didn’t notice power lines going into Mexico, so I assume these plants and all the thigh-thick copper cables were paid for by Californians.
Who in their right mind (wild assumption there) would put their power generation capability into the hands of somebody who might not be your friend tomorrow?
“Meanwhile, Lake Erie keeps flowing 24/7 into the Niagara River that turns one of the largest electric producers(Niagara Mohawk)in the US and Canada. It produces some of the cheapest electricity/kilowatt in the world.”
Thanks to Tesla!
My ex-dentist has installed two vertical windmills in his parking lot. They’re odd.
Why the hostility? It think it has been pretty well established that electricity generating windmills are horrendously unreliable, an actual drag on any power grid they are attached to when working as advertised, and pretty much a big fat joke on tax payers and consumers. Do you really think citing a heavily footnoted academic journal articles is necessary when mentioning the obvious fact that the things just can't take the stress and rarely function?
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