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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Dori on September 25, 2014, 02:39:20 PM
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Star Member Aristus (34,494 posts)
I drove through a vast windfarm on my way to Spokane.
It seemed a little surreal. It was like journeying through a strange forest. If one has Don Quixote in mind, one could imagine the windmills as giants with huge, long, flailing arms. I thought of them as benign giants, though, because of their purpose.
Sure beats the hell out of oil derricks griming up the landscape...
^ :argh: I HATE them. Creepy, ruin the landscape, kill the birds and half of them are broken.
Star Member politicat (8,641 posts)
1. I love them.
I had to drive to Indiana twice last winter. (Long story, not fun) and both Nebraska and Kansas have miles of them. I may not be a fan of bloody Kansas, but at least they're using their wind.
KamaAina (54,292 posts)
2. There's a huge one at Altamont Pass along I-580.
Between Livermore and Stockton at the edge of the Bay Area. Yes, that is the Altamont where the infamous concert happened in 1970.
I don't know why we don't have more of them. There is a stretch of I-80 outside Vallejo that is marked with yellow signs warning drivers of vehicles with trailers of high wind conditions. But nary a windmill is in sight.
Dyedinthewoolliberal (7,471 posts)
5. I know this place!
On the way back west there is a rest stop with several of these close by and it the weather cooperates you can see Mt. Ranier.........
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See any birds around?
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See any birds around?
They're all dead.
Just like the bloody solar panel farms.
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They're all dead.
Just like the bloody solar panel farms.
Wind farms chop them up and solar farms fry them up.
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Windmills and solar panels will be around as long as Congress keeps pouring taxpayer money into subsidizing them.
Like these stupid electric cars, they cannot otherwise exist.
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Windmills and solar panels will be around as long as Congress keeps pouring taxpayer money into subsidizing them.
Like these stupid electric cars, they cannot otherwise exist.
The same could be said of low info voters. They will only exist as long as there is a government tit to feed from.
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Wind farms chop them up and solar farms fry them up.
KFC is teaching chickens to fly in order to reduce cooking costs. Got to get that $15 an hour from somewhere.
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Star Member politicat (8,641 posts)
1. I love them.
I had to drive to Indiana twice last winter. (Long story, not fun) and both Nebraska and Kansas have miles of them. I may not be a fan of bloody Kansas, but at least they're using their wind.
Well, you'd better move then before this:
(http://tomroberson.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/windmill-fire-3.jpeg)
happens. Run for your indoctrinated emotions....for Gaias' sake RUN!!!!!
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Windmills and solar panels will be around as long as Congress keeps pouring taxpayer money into subsidizing them.
Like these stupid electric cars, they cannot otherwise exist.
From what I was seeing, and hearing, in the industry was that when the tax subsidies ran out, the owning company would shut the windmills down.
As a baseline generation method, windmills are unreliable, can only run within a narrow bans of windspeed and, as the atmospheric wind patterns are usually CW, there is only enough slack in the internal cables to allow the rotating head spin three times around before locking out/down. Then the generating utility had to dispatch a tem to 'unspin it'. They're quite expensive to run.
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Dummies, ever been near one of these farms? (pssst..........they're kinda noisy) Also, DUmmies, look at how many are locked out.
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Dummies, ever been near one of these farms? (pssst..........they're kinda noisy) Also, DUmmies, look at how many are locked out.
I've heard they will drive you crazy if you live near one.....wonder if it will work in reverse? We could undo the crazy in DUmmies.