Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/08/2011 1:49:29 PM PST by Timocrat
A £2 million, 100 metre tall wind turbine catches fire in hurricane-force winds at Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The wind turbine was spinning so fast it caught fire.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I prefer to call them warm mongers.
I wondered what those giant lengths of NiChrome wire running from the generators to the power station to run power from the turbines to the powerlines....
If “the wind” - in spite of its totally dynamic and locally variable expression everywhere - represents some natural and quantifiable force in and aspect of the ‘natural’ global climate, then is it possible that the capture and diversion of that force on a massive global scale - to mechanical energy driving electric turbines, could result in unknown, and possibly massive changes in global weather patterns? /sarc
Can humans ‘fix’ a supposed outcome of one form of our massive ‘intervention’ in the globe’s climate with a means that is nothing other than a different massive intervention? /more sarc
More and more the tiny atom seems the most ‘green’ energy on the planet.
Suddenly, I find myself thinking of the Chevy Volt...
Yes. The “Green” world seems to involve a lot of external combustion.
These things are designed to work in a narrow range of wind speed. If the wind gets too low or too strong, they are supposed to self feather the vanes. Most have adjustable vanes. If these vanes were fixed it should have had a disconnect to not over rotate the generator.
The whole wind turbine deal is a fraud when you figure the site cost, build cost, maintenance and government subsidy compared to a coal, nuclear or gas generator plant.
ML/NJ
Surplus Energy Production!
LOL!
Tinted electricity...
The ROI on that $3.5 million investment suddenly jumped to infinity.
Yup, it blowed up real good.
Interesting. It appears to be an internal/external combustion engine.
* More and more the tiny atom seems the most ‘green’ energy on the planet.*
Regular nuclear power is pretty good for energy independence, thorium nuclear is even better and safer.
Isn't the engine that makes the blades turn when there's no wind? :-)
“The turbine was one of 15 set up on hills overlooking the Scottish coast, built to supply green electricity to 20,000 homes.”
So, those 20,000 homes are now off the grid, right? No, of course not. Fraud.
“thorium nuclear is even better and safer”
My reference to ‘the tiny atom’ applies to every type of ‘nuclear’ energy, thorium included; but I would not exclude any (nuclear energy sources) either. If we cannot avoid having our politicians giving a government boost to ‘energy’, nuclear is the one area I would consent to.
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