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Ground broken on huge wind farm ( Silence from Kennedy and Kerry )
Denver Post ^ | 05/17/2007 | Steve Raabe

Posted on 06/15/2007 3:13:33 PM PDT by george76

The $700 million project in Logan County will be the third-largest in the nation, producing 400 megawatts with 267 turbines.

Developers broke ground Wednesday on a $700 million wind farm in northeast Colorado that will be the nation's third-largest wind generator.

FPL Energy and Invenergy Wind will develop the 400-megawatt project, which will yield enough power to supply about 120,000 homes.

Xcel Energy will buy the facility's entire electric output. Combined with purchases from three other wind farms, the Peetz Table project will allow Xcel to meet the requirements of Colorado's renewable-energy standard seven years early.

(Excerpt) Read more at denverpost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; US: California; US: Colorado; US: Massachusetts; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: breakingwind; capewind; energy; renewenergy; wind; windfarms
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To: george76

I was talking with a company who manufactures electrical switchgear yesterday. They said the wind farms are giving them a lot of business the last couple years.


21 posted on 06/15/2007 3:46:25 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: george76

And how much will they contribute to global warning?


22 posted on 06/15/2007 3:46:30 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: COBOL2Java

Far better than breaking wind on a ground farm.


23 posted on 06/15/2007 3:46:34 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken (Seldom right but never in doubt)
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To: stefanbatory

24 posted on 06/15/2007 3:49:08 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: BurbankKarl

These wind farms are becoming such a huge source of energy that some juco’s are offering courses in windmill maintenance.


25 posted on 06/15/2007 3:49:20 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Rudy met his third wife when he was cheating on his first wife with his second wife." Jay Leno)
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To: george76

Just think about it....Energy from Passing Wind.


26 posted on 06/15/2007 3:52:38 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: NRA2BFree
Of course Kennedy and Kerry won’t say anything.

Nope. Those low-life scum won't have a thing to say about it since it is not visible from their compounds. Funny thing is, I just watched a hearing where Kerry himself criticizes the President for his lack of commitment to renewable fuels. Is Kerry really that clueless? I know Kennedy is but at least he is a drunk.
27 posted on 06/15/2007 5:00:48 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: P-40
Nope. Those low-life scum won't have a thing to say about it since it is not visible from their compounds. Funny thing is, I just watched a hearing where Kerry himself criticizes the President for his lack of commitment to renewable fuels. Is Kerry really that clueless? I know Kennedy is but at least he is a drunk.

Well, Kerry is pretty much of an airhead, and you have correctly described Kennedy.... ;o)

28 posted on 06/15/2007 5:04:21 PM PDT by NRA2BFree ("The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves!")
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To: lepton
And how much will they contribute to global warning?

Less than Kennedy's sailboat, I'd imagine.
29 posted on 06/15/2007 5:10:43 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: george76; Uncledave

Probably using GE 1.5MW machines, Uncledave should know. More wind energy is good for America!


30 posted on 06/16/2007 7:13:24 AM PDT by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: george76


31 posted on 06/17/2007 5:19:39 AM PDT by Disturbin (Goverment is not the solution to any problem)
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To: george76; RedStateRocker; Dementon; eraser2005; Calpernia; DTogo; Maelstrom; Yehuda; babble-on; ...
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32 posted on 06/17/2007 5:41:09 AM PDT by Uncledave
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To: DTogo; george76

Yes, that project is using GE machines.


33 posted on 06/17/2007 5:45:18 AM PDT by Uncledave
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To: Uncledave

Windmills should be set up on the outskirts of D.C. with all the hotair that comes out of that place.


34 posted on 06/17/2007 6:35:16 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Joe 6-pack; george76; Uncledave
>> "The 120-foot long, 8.2-ton blade..."

> This could very well prove to be the most efficient bird killer ever devised.

Oh, geez.... Same old bird-shredder argument. No matter how many times the facts are presented (such as, the number of birds injured by large wind machines is miniscule compared to the population; it's a negligible cause-of-death among healthy birds), this still comes up.

It's just not a significant problem, because the prop rotates so slowly. Do the math, don't just parrot falsehoods.

The blade tips must stay well below Mach 1 (the speed of sound), which is a little over 1000 feet/sec. A 120-foot radius means the circumference of the rotor is about (120 * PI * 2) or about 750 feet. This means that the prop won't be turning faster than about 1 rev per second tops.

Say a large bird (couple feet front to back) flies straight into the swept area of the rotor. Say it's going, 30 feet per second (slow-average speed of big birds in open windy areas). The chances that it'll encounter the blade are less than 1:10 -- that's flying directly into it. Smaller bird, even smaller chance. Faster bird, even smaller chance.

(And as a different matter, any bird that can't see (and get out of the way of) something turning that slowly probably isn't long for this world anyway.)

As for "efficient", you'd do better with a BB-gun, at much lower cost.

Or if you really want to kill birds with wind-machines, get a small one that turns really quickly, a backyard unit with 10-15-foot blades. Those turn fast enough that they might actually shred a couple of local avians.

35 posted on 06/17/2007 1:46:25 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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