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Interesting Wind farm development
dpmule
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But but but but but.......it's GREEN! How can it be bad in any way?!!? Not counting the birds it kills!
Never were “green” as far as I could tell. The time needed to recoup the resources used to create, install, and maintain them is probably greater than the expected lifespan.
I watched one burn down one time. They don't produce enough energy to even pay for themselves.
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — A federal wind energy project off of the Carolina coast could lower energy bills for consumers. The federal government announced Friday it will have auctions for two offshore areas in May, which could pave the way for a wind project capable of powering 500,000 homes.
Boondoggle at best.........blatant waste of tax dollars at worst. Along with the physical/thermodynamic fact that they will always consume more energy than they create.
More humble $0.02........
If anything like here, the power won’t benefit the locals. The two local wind farms here, the power is sold to California. Read about the one I can see one the ridge line south of me.
Mule
I would tend to say when a hurricane runs into a windmill won't much be left .
I have seen a lot of videos of the blades being burred as I guess one way to recycle them
Also As posted they take up more resources and effort than they ever produce
I guess there’s a bunch of them in Casper/Natrona county landfill awaiting internment.
https://apnews.com/article/industrial-waste-wyoming-gillette-085d653f2f46a279236b7633a7b6014f
I don’t know what they do with the ones from the two wind farms south of us and I’m not sure if they get replaced on a revolution count. Guess I’ll have google that.
Mule
Real smart putting them on the water... Govt must think water and electricity mixes. Never mind the salt water corrosion
How long should a blade last?
Bingo!!!.......exactly!!
I read that AOC is going to chip-in and help with the initial cost. The article wasn't clear if the chipping-in was rum&coke or something else. 😍
Large amount of male bovine fecal material.
Heard a discussion today that a cattle farmer near here is going to be taxed $$$$ per head to help fight greenhouse gasses.
He has 200 head and said he didn't know if would pay it or sell off the herd. This would play right into PETA and vegan's hands.
Stupid bunch we have in charge.
So I wonder if they will start putting a tax on beans, cabbage and such? Calling it a human consumption gas tax. There is no end to the stupidity these days with these people.
It's just according to how many and how big the birds are that it kills.
They, the greenies, seem to turn their heads on that one. They kill ALL kinds of birds, endangered ect. the blades don't discriminate.
What a friggen waste of BILLIONS of dollars and it is insane at the least.
Guy across the valley put up a personal wind plant, pretty big, I’d guess blades were 20’ each. He’s seriously into everything renewable.
He set it going and right away the entire valley was full of “whoom whoom whoom” low frequency noise that penetrates right through your walls.
That lasted an aggravating week and we had one of our famous windstorms. It never got over even 60mph, they’re typically 100 to 110mph, but the clutch to release the blades when overpowered stuck. We were watching it winding up higher and higher and the people that lived near him, like within 1/4 mile, started leaving their homes out of fear.
Some time in the night it let go and destroyed itself. Luckily nobody was killed from the shrapnel, but it very nearly took out the sides of a couple houses.
It get to twirling so fast that it created a low frequency vortex that jumped the ridge and caused that big slide near Eagle River?
Mule
They should put rev limiters on em '
An MSD 6AL ought to take care of it.
Ummm, it is NOT perpetual motion if they produce more power than they consume. The energy input comes from the wind. As such, it is not a closed system, and therefore not perpetual motion. Even an English major like me knows that.
Whether or not (or perhaps weather or not) they are a viable energy source that is cheaper than it costs is certainly up for debate. Certainly one might suggest that there may be better ways to convert wind to electricity than bladed turbines, but those technologies are yet to be developed. What we now have are "Wind Farms V1.0".
I decided to see what I could find out about this subject. Apparently the blades are supposed to last 25 to 30 years but this rarely happens. The average on all turbines currently operating is now 7 years. Apparently a lot are replaced after 14 years. Nobody knows what to do with a worn out blade except to bury them.
Maintenance and repair is a real problem. The gear box needs to be reoiled about 3 times a year.
I'm sure a turban located on an ocean will not last as long and will require more maintenance and repair.
These wind farms don't do well in a tornado either. The motors that these things run on are $1M apiece and guess how fast the blades are turning at the tips? 223 mph! That's why eagles and other bird species fall to these boondoggles. Surprised that the US Fish and Wildlife Service hasn't shut them down due to bird impacts.
A lot of people have made a whole lot of money off of these wind farms but I would be willing to bet the actual cost of the electricity is super expensive, as in prohibitive.
I would be willing to bet that for every $100,000,000 spent on windmills means a MINIMUM of $30,000,000 to $35,000,000 goes into some ones pocket. I really believe all this green BS is just that BS! Green is such a great way to fleece us taxpayers.
In local news.
Mule
Wind farm in Puerto Rico. Not great quality but the best I could do in a moving vehicle. This answers the question as to how they will do in a hurricane
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LS&D...Am I not correct that any "perpetual motion" machine has to be a closed system? Nor that a system with wind energy input and electricity output is not a closed system? And if both of those are true, then it cannot be a perpetual motion machine?
Where am I wrong?
But after re-reading my earlier post, I WAS wrong to disagree with your comment. Something that did produce more than it consumed would be perpetual motion. Nothing does, however. Not even nuclear energy, which eventually runs out of fuel.