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To: LRoggy

When I first saw these things, my experience as a millwright and subsequently a designer and engineer of large scale processing plants, I said immediately that the issue of maintenance would far outweigh their capability to generate enough power to pay for itself.

The first farm I saw was the one at the pass outside of Palm Springs on my way back to Florida from one of the last races at Riverside.

Always execute the straight face test first.


15 posted on 11/24/2011 10:42:49 AM PST by mazda77 (and I am a Native Texan)
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To: mazda77
I know someone who does maintenance on these things. When they have to replace parts they are required to build a road to the wind turbine first (for the cranes). After the maintenance they must demolish the road and replace the sod.

All so that it all looks like nice and "green" when they take pictures of it.

30 posted on 11/24/2011 11:07:07 AM PST by The Duke
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