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Jan 31, 2021 14:05:09   #
trainspotter Loc: Oregon
 
There are PLENTY of them "spinners" in MAUI too!....(they mix well with southwest side that has the scrub brush.

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Jan 31, 2021 14:25:01   #
Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast
 
joecichjr wrote:
B&W/IR: Looking out my sister's kitchen window. These things cover a good part of the county. I think they're awesome and beautiful! I figured out they are a couple hundred feet tall and spin about 75mph. About 500 in the area.


Great photo Joe, how about the tradeoffs? When compared to natural gas generation, there's no comparison. Most wind farms are remote and require large tracts of land. Transmission lines from a remote wind farm will need to be longer and a wind farm needs to be larger to provide the same amount of power as the a natural gas plant....ex: assume a 10-percent electricity loss per 100 miles, a wind farm 500 miles away needs to be double in size of a similar, closer located, gas generating station. As a matter of fact for a 500 unit wind farm, they could build a nuclear generating station for that price...However there are resources for localized requirements such as solar and hydroelectric to support the grid and local needs. Granted, everything changes somewhat as technology changes....Cheers.

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Jan 31, 2021 14:59:37   #
Texcaster Loc: Queensland
 
Say Cheese wrote:
And the low frequency hum causing people to leave the area or think they are going crazy.


Donald Trump says windmills cause cancer. Rudy won't go that far but Cousin Huckabee is onboard.

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Jan 31, 2021 15:58:59   #
jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana
 
InfiniteISO wrote:
Nuclear power is such a clear solution to our energy needs and yet there is no push to keep refining and examining nuclear power. There are nuclear power plant designs now with mechanical safeguards built-in where the staff could literally walk away from them after shutting down the cooling pumps and they would safely take themselves offline. Spent fuel would be safely stored right at the site. They are the cheapest, cleanest, most efficient, and safest form of electrical power. If we're all going to drive electric vehicles someday, we need to take another look at nuclear.
Nuclear power is such a clear solution to our ener... (show quote)



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Jan 31, 2021 16:26:58   #
slocumeddie Loc: Inside your head, again
 
InfiniteISO wrote:
Nuclear power is such a clear solution to our energy needs and yet there is no push to keep refining and examining nuclear power. There are nuclear power plant designs now with mechanical safeguards built-in where the staff could literally walk away from them after shutting down the cooling pumps and they would safely take themselves offline. Spent fuel would be safely stored right at the site. They are the cheapest, cleanest, most efficient, and safest form of electrical power. If we're all going to drive electric vehicles someday, we need to take another look at nuclear.
Nuclear power is such a clear solution to our ener... (show quote)

You said a bad word.....

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Jan 31, 2021 20:11:20   #
thom w Loc: San Jose, CA
 
Hereford wrote:
Elon Musk has stated USA would need to double its generating capacity to charge large numbers of electric cars. Most will want to charge their cars at night when sleeping. No solar power and limited wind power at night. How do you think that is going to work out !!!!!!!


I've read about some invention called a battery. Perhaps that would be of help.

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Jan 31, 2021 20:18:15   #
thom w Loc: San Jose, CA
 
Blaster34 wrote:
Very nice photos Joe....but as they say, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" or "one man's art is another person's trash."


And oil fields and refineries are good looking?

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Jan 31, 2021 20:25:45   #
Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast
 
thom w wrote:
And oil fields and refineries are good looking?



Refineries are localized and not pretty but necessary for chemicals other than oil. Once an oil well is developed, not much to see except a grasshopper...not hundreds of 240’ of eyesores or obstructions as far as you can see.

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Jan 31, 2021 21:03:10   #
slocumeddie Loc: Inside your head, again
 
thom w wrote:
I've read about some invention called a battery. Perhaps that would be of help.

Uninformed response, Casper.....

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Feb 1, 2021 09:04:54   #
phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York
 
InfiniteISO wrote:
Nuclear power is such a clear solution to our energy needs and yet there is no push to keep refining and examining nuclear power. There are nuclear power plant designs now with mechanical safeguards built-in where the staff could literally walk away from them after shutting down the cooling pumps and they would safely take themselves offline. Spent fuel would be safely stored right at the site. They are the cheapest, cleanest, most efficient, and safest form of electrical power. If we're all going to drive electric vehicles someday, we need to take another look at nuclear.
Nuclear power is such a clear solution to our ener... (show quote)


Absolutely! As long as the folks who designed Fukushima don't get in on it

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Feb 2, 2021 11:53:29   #
merrytexan Loc: georgia
 
joecichjr wrote:
B&W/IR: Looking out my sister's kitchen window. These things cover a good part of the county. I think they're awesome and beautiful! I figured out they are a couple hundred feet tall and spin about 75mph. About 500 in the area.


I like the picture, joe. They are amazing and monstrous and I don't like them...not good for the birds. When we drove from ga to Calif a couple of years ago we were pretty much overwhelmed at how many there were and the size of them.

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Feb 2, 2021 12:46:56   #
wilpharm Loc: Oklahoma
 
mflowe wrote:
It's called "evolution". They'll have to adapt and learn how to fly around them.


you are serious, right?????....guess cattle will have to adapt & avoid meat packers!!

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Feb 2, 2021 12:48:29   #
wilpharm Loc: Oklahoma
 
thom w wrote:
And oil fields and refineries are good looking?


they don't stretch for miles like ugly-ass bird killing windmills...mayby you need one in your yard...

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Feb 2, 2021 17:22:46   #
mflowe Loc: Port Deposit, MD
 
wilpharm wrote:
you are serious, right?????....guess cattle will have to adapt & avoid meat packers!!


That's actually pretty funny. Good comeback

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Feb 2, 2021 20:11:51   #
wilpharm Loc: Oklahoma
 
mflowe wrote:
That's actually pretty funny. Good comeback



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