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This wind turbine has no blades — and that’s why it’s better
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| 20MAY2015
| Amelia Urry
Posted on 05/20/2015 6:58:43 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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To: ClearCase_guy
“That’s awesome! I was hoping someone would invent a wind mill which sucked even more at capturing energy!”
Anything to get rid of those hideous windmill farms.
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posted on
05/20/2015 7:35:43 PM PDT
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: Fiddlstix
I just kept wanting it to stop.
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posted on
05/20/2015 7:43:55 PM PDT
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
The explanation of the principal of operation was as clear as mud. Any body have any insight as to how it is supposed to work?
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posted on
05/20/2015 7:51:22 PM PDT
by
jack308
To: dsc
They claim 6-8 months for regular wind turbines here in the Pacific Northwest.
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posted on
05/20/2015 8:00:23 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: steve86
“They claim 6-8 months for regular wind turbines here in the Pacific Northwest.”
Is that plausible?
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posted on
05/20/2015 8:02:06 PM PDT
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
IT'S A FESTIVUS MIRACLE!
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posted on
05/20/2015 8:05:55 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: Flick Lives
This is true — a colleague once calculated the temperature drop in Europe if all European energy were generated by windmills. It was a few Centigrade degrees.
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posted on
05/20/2015 8:13:24 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
To: Yardstick
Ah, there you go. You had to remind us about the old unintended consequences thing.
Buzzkill Yardstick
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posted on
05/20/2015 8:14:57 PM PDT
by
onona
(Obama's entire term reads like a John Semmens post.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
05/20/2015 8:17:11 PM PDT
by
CtBigPat
(Free Republic - The grown-ups table of the internet.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Plus, the turbine has no gears or moving parts; theoretically maintenance could be much easier than a traditional bells-and-whistles spinning one. Sounds promising....
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posted on
05/20/2015 8:17:57 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Did ABC really 'research' the Clinton Cash book and find 'nothing' or was that also lie?)
To: dsc
Yes - with massive taxpayer subsidies...
Otherwise not so much...
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posted on
05/20/2015 8:21:23 PM PDT
by
DB
To: DB
So, the government is committing fraud again.
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posted on
05/20/2015 8:22:35 PM PDT
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: dsc
Isn’t anyone in Congress concerned that, building more of these windmill farms could make this country take off and fly away?
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posted on
05/20/2015 8:22:59 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(muzzies are a national security liability.)
To: GraceG
Glad somebody else sees where this is going...
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posted on
05/20/2015 8:25:46 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(Hillary:polarizing/calculating/disingenuous/insincere/ambitious/inevitable/entitled/overconfident/se)
To: 353FMG
“Isnt anyone in Congress concerned that, building more of these windmill farms could make this country take off and fly away?”
Look on the bright side: maybe we’d land on Iran—right on the Wicked Ayatollah of the East.
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posted on
05/20/2015 8:26:44 PM PDT
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: Flick Lives
It’s a matter of thermodynamics: removing energy from the wind in order to create work will result in a temperature loss of the air.
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posted on
05/20/2015 8:26:51 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(muzzies are a national security liability.)
To: dsc
The sub-year payback is independent of any subsidies. It is simply time to pay for itself. A million kWh over a year raises a lot of revenue.
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posted on
05/20/2015 8:29:08 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: steve86
So the things can pay for themselves.
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posted on
05/20/2015 8:30:04 PM PDT
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: GOPJ
No mechanical interfaces but it does have inherent material strains which will lead to fatigue and eventual failure.
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posted on
05/20/2015 8:31:30 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: Flick Lives
That doesn’t sound quite right, if I may say so. What causes wind is a high barometric pressure in one area and a low pressure in another and the air rushes from the high toward the low. As it rushes through a wind farm it may be deflected momentarily by a windmill blade or a “stalk of asparagus”, but once it has passed the impediment the barometric pressures are the same as ever and it rushes on again, just as before.
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posted on
05/20/2015 8:31:41 PM PDT
by
Tucker39
(Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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