OT Windmill

[Dan S (NY)]

They are growing windmills in the north! Went to check them out last weekend. I'm told that this is the 'smaller' type. Others will be taller. I couldn't imagine living that close to one of those. This is in Clinton, NY and there will be over 150 of them.

 

[Anonymous-0]

I'd love to have one just like it. I don't think they make much noise. Gotta be quieter than living within a mile of the NYS Thruway. A neighbor has a much smaller one and says he has not sent a dime to the electric company in a year.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Our elec coop has a wind farm in northern Missouri and enjoying good production. If you are interested in o a residential unit you might want to check out the South Skystream. It has the inverter, etc all built in and delivers clean AC right off the tower. Pretty reasonably priced too. I'm trying to get our coop to look at subsidizing them for members, like elec hot water tanks and backup generators.

 

[havvey]

A few here too but i like the old aermotor water pumpers!!

 

[dlplost]

they're building the same ones to the west of me somewhere. Im in Corning, NY and see the parts going west on I-86 almost daily. 2 blades per truck, 3 trucks went by yesterday.

 

[Anonymous-0]

There are hundreds of them in SW MN. (Glacial Ridge, Pipestone area). Just another way that MN leads the nation in biofuels, ethanol, biodiesel, wind energy. Pretty spendy to put up-over a million per tower, with a payout of about ten years. They are not noisy like earlier ones- went through the area a month ago, shut off the car- could not hear them turn. When they operate, you'll notice some not turning. They are unwinding- they follow the wind but after four revolutions the computer stops the blades and unwinds elec cable that goes to the ground.

 

[Gary from Muleshoe]

They are thicker than trees in NY here in West Texas. Every where that can catch a good wind they are going up. The History Channel had a good program on about how these thing are built shipped and go together. I was in Boise City, OK this past Monday and there were about 4 of them setting on trucks ready to head for the site.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Yup...that is a small one. Company I work for builds them...I work in the co-generation div designing turbine powered plants. We use the same engine as a 747.
We are told there is a 2 year backlog on the wind units. Ya gotta wait on a 2 year list to get one.
The big ones have a longer span on the blades than the wings on a jumbo jet.
I saw them loading the blades on one here awhile back that measured 360ft from hub to blade tip.
At normal RPM, the blade tip is traveling 226MPH. Big suckers.

 

[Walt Davies]

Those things are neat to see but cover a state like NJ with them and you almost produce a small part of what one good hydroelectric plant could put out.

Walt

 

[John A.]

Boys, Spoke to some folks @ Sweetwater, Texas; Nolan county about 18 months back about them. At that time the Economic Development group that they have there had really stepped up to the plate to bring Wind Energy to Nolan Co. AT that time they had been in the Wind Business for just under 2 yrs. And at that time they were producing more electricity than the entire State of California, and Cal. has had them out there for 40 yrs or so!!
Just found that instresting.
Later,
John A.

 

[Bret4207]

Was up in Churbusco the other day just to see them. I find them beautiful. What gets me is the same "environmentally concious" types who fight for electric cars, no nukes, etc. don't want these anywhere near THEIR homes. Hypocracy runs amuck!

If someone offered me $5000.00 a year per tower they'd be on my farm in a heartbeat!

 

[Anonymous-0]

Figure on "state of the art" windmills like they're installing off the coast of England...

300' high a piece.

Connecticut would require 3,000 just to offset our current electric usage. To make a meaningful impact against fossil fuels for heating and transportation, let's say 6,000 and ignore the slight issue of how do you store surplus electricity on that scale for when the winds are too light or too strong.

Now this is is in a state where Cell Phone towers will ignite controversies, and we're all paying 10%+ on our electric bills because the Southwestern part of the state didn't want to see a new transmission line constructed above ground...so all the ratepayers are paying to build a 40 mile long buried transmission line.

Can't put them on the water, either -- State's been suing the Feds & New York to stop various gas pipelines and electrical lines under the sound -- if single point to point projects like that aren't tolerated, can't imagine thousands of towers and the undersea cables to all of them.

Now if cell phone towers, transmission lines, and undersea cables are all evil, I'm kind of curious how the envirowhackos are going to tolerate the windmills they want, too?

We're tearing down hydro dams in the Northwest because of the environmental damage they do, and probably the only reason their safe in my area is people figure the silt behind our dams is full of PCB and other industrial pollutants and it would be worse to release it then restoring natural river flows.

So Wind won't be tolerated, hydro is too big of an environmental impact, coal and oil are evil according the cult of Al Gore. And the left has been the avowed enemy of nuclear since the 1970s...something's gotta give folks because y'all can't have none of them.