North Dakota, USA a number of environmental watch dog web sites are reporting the blades of a wind turbine fell from the tower putting that unit off line pending repair. The results of this disaster are:
No gazillion ton concrete containment dome will have to be built over the site.
No 20 mile evacuation radius has been established for the safety of the residents, yet.
No civil or military efforts have been required for rescue and recovery.
Loss of life so far is restricted to a few dozen prairie grass plants the blades drove into the earth.
No radiation has been reported in other nations, local milk shows no increase in radiation.
Up to now the nearest ocean has not been used as a dump for leaking fluids.
The return to service of this wind mill could be as little as a few weeks.
The surrounding grid and consumers have suffered zero power outages following the event.
What is the true and total cost of Wind energy? What is it for nuclear energy?
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
ReplyDeleteIf my back yard is any indication, they'd better recover the blades quickly or they'll never find 'em in the weeds.
ReplyDeleteTime to call the Dutch....so we can learn how to keep the blades attached..........
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ReplyDeleteI think the answer is blowing in the subsidies given, and in the cost of the FBI trying to figure out if anyone will attack a plant, and in the price of clean up and efforts around three mile island, and our Navy costs around the Japanese disaster helping them recover.
Mr. O,
ReplyDeleteYour funny, we all know damn well that New Zealand doesn't have weeds.
TAB,
ReplyDeleteThe Danes may have more experience with these new wind mills, but certainly those wooden shoe wearing herring eat'n dutchmen knew a lot about wind mills, no Don Quixote ever knocked their unit in the mud.
I'd take a broken blade over a core meltdown anyday
ReplyDeleteWonder if the installer forgot to tighten a few nuts. You know, the more I find out about chemical injection in natural gas fields, nuclear problems, coal issues, etc, the more I am willing to see increased subsidies for wind and solar.
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