Sunday, May 23, 2021

Felling of 90 Mitsubishi 1000A Wind Turbines - Controlled Demolition, Inc.

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    1. Seems like all that stuff could be "repurposed" some how rather than scraping all of it. Helicopter one of those big tubes to downtown San Fran and let homeless people inhabit it. When it is filled with vagrants helicopter it 100 miles out over the ocean and tilt it vertical at 5000 ft altitude. Repeat.

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  2. Indeed. Let's get the "undocumented" to clean these up. Would that this happens to every wind turbine in the USA.

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  3. Indeed. Let's get the "undocumented" to clean these up. Would that this happens to every wind turbine in the USA.

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  4. Why didn't they just dig a giant pit & drop them in it? They are going to be buried in a landfill anyway. Now they have to be cut up & taken there.

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  5. Expensive to install, expensive to maintain, and expensive to decommission. No way those things make economic sense.

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    1. I read somewhere that they will never produce enough energy to equal what it took to manufacture them. Also, you can't recycle the blades.

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  6. Expensive to install, expensive to maintain, and expensive to decommission. No way those things make economic sense.

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  7. Expensive to install, expensive to maintain, and expensive to decommission. No way those things make economic sense.

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  8. The turbine top weighs over 100 tons. Big as a small house up there. Huge gear box. Tower base is 2inch thick plate when you walk thru the doorway.

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  9. Then there is the 30 tons of reinforced cement that is in the ground that will be covered up.

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  10. There are hundreds of those boondoggles here in NE Nebraska that these guys could practice on. Or how about we just don't waste our taxpayer dollars on these POS's in the first place.

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  11. What a total waste of engineering, time, and money.
    Good to see 'em blowed up.

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  12. Now that the -30- is written on these things, tell me did any one of them every produce more energy than they required to get build, deployed, and destroyed?

    Half the energy?

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  13. And we paid for all of it. Probably decided the field should be a few miles over and the infrastructure bill has the cost included, including campaign contributions.

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    1. Not yet. There's plenty of other things that need to be paid for first. As it stands right now, it will take over 1000 years to pay for the stuff currently on the docket, and more is spent every dam day. I personally think it will implode way before then. Maybe in the next year or so.

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  14. Exemplary green technology.

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  15. Drop all of those felled monstrosities in Greta Thunberg's backyard.

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  16. To mine the precious earth metals needed for the design, required hydrocarbon-powered machinery.
    To manufacture, transport, erect & commission them required hydrocarbon-powered machinery.
    To operate & maintain them required hydrocarbon-powered machinery.
    To demolish them required explosives with hydrocarbon ingredients.
    The cleanup? You guessed it. Of course, it's not really a cleanup - just scavenging any spare parts that are still useful for the remaining operable units and dumping the rest in a landfill.

    So.....why are they being demolished after a few scant years of operation? Run out of tax credits, did we? "Green" Energy.

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    1. IN service for only 15 years. Demolished to Build Back Better (& Bigger!)

      https://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/wind/ge-renewable-energy-announces-235-mw-repower-20210114

      For a fresh crop of bamboozled investors......

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  17. At least now I know they're good for something.

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  18. "Dear sirs,
    My name is Don Quixote, and I am very interested in learning your craft..."

    Also (https://xkcd.com/556/)

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  19. From the road, they don't look that big, but seeing the major components being driven down the road you realize just how gigantic they are. Note in the final seconds when you see a guy walking up behind the last one.

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  20. 😁 That was thoroughly enjoyable. I could watch that all day and it would never get tired.

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