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Where is the liberal MoonBat (Silkwood style) attack on the dangers of wind generation?

That detonation of a windmill caused more physical damage than 3 Mile Island.

Well as someone that works in this field (Putting up Turbines) I want to see all energy sources go thru.

Plus how many oil refinery fires could be shown?

Now dont get me wrong.. I believe in the Drill, Drill, Drill and More F'n Drilling need.

I just laugh at the amount of MoonBat environuts and animal rights nuts protest us putting up Wind Turbine Generators.

Face it people they want no energy producers of any type on this planet. They will protest everything we put up or come up with.

Waffle, let the market choose the method. If wind turbines are profitable, then by all means, go forward. If they must be subsidized by the government (read: taxpayer) then they need to FAIL.

my husband has done maintenance on these - it's quite spendy - those blades are 75 feet long and hollow - they're yawed by computer and if the computer goes down the thing can go haywire - that and the blades peel like a banana if struck by lightening.

the reason they're so expensive to maintain is they've yet to find a grease that doesn't dissipate with so much action.

don't quite understand the black smoke in the second one.

Wind energy not so enviromentaly freindly becuase WIND TURBINES ARE BIRD KILLERS and just look at the vast quantities of black smoke that ones putting out so SCREW THE GREENS SCREW THE DEMACREEPS SQUAWK SQUAWK US BIRDS DONT LIKE WIND TURBINES LOOK LOOK REVENGE OF THE BIRDS SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK

Spurwing, you are hereby officially invited to Pennsylvania to come and drink beer and talk politics with myself and the other Bitterclingers.

That was OBVIOUSLY an explosion! Bush is using the destruction of our windmills as an excuse to declare WAR on East Kudzuville and steal all their gin!

My family had a windmill run wild in a high wind, it was NOT a pretty sight.

there's no doubt that bush used leftover c4 from the world trade center to blow up the windmill

Can one imagine that over a whole wind farm in a hurricane?

"We forsake you.
Gonna rape you.
Let's forget you better still."

I dont drink beer i have to be able to fly streight

Alternative energy is not a total joke, wind and solar are niche at best. Ehtanol has some real promise. Coal is king though. This is an alternative energy believe it or not. The Germans understood it in 1930's, and if
they didn't have a mad agenda we would laugh at oil. I am being serious.

Let me add:

Solar and wind energy can make money as an investor. As I do see a future of wind mills or solar cells made in China for like pennies to the dollar now. They did it with calculators, telivisons, it will get cheap and get cheap fast.

These are great shots, but all energy sources are plausible if the market says so. Unless these 'mills were forcibly put up with public money in some effort to make a statement or force a market, they are a good thing.

Artfldgr, can you imagine a field of refineries in a hurricane? Oh yeah, that's what we've been doing in the Southeast for two weeks now. C'mon... disasters happen. Admittedly it would be AWESOME to watch.

Spurwing--you are awesome, dude. The birds don't like wind turbines! Classic! I laughed so hard that it hurts. Since you don't drink beer, fly down here to Houston and I'll give you all the bird seed you can eat.

There one called REVENGE OF THE BIRDS showing birds going on a rampage the only thing iy dosnt show are some birds pushing down a wind turbine with GREENPEACE or WWF on it REVENGE REVENGE SQUAWK SQUAWK WE BIRDS ARE OUT FOR REVENGE SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK

"Parker at September 29, 2008 11:17 PM"

I have advocated wind and solar power on this site before, but I think they would be better as a BACK-UP fitted to privatly owned buildings and to charge up street lights and signs. I'm sure that you've seen pictures of wind/solar "farms", they cover a couple of hundred acers! (Think of animals that were displaced!) A nuke plant would only cover a forth of that and provide more power. We would still need oil, though; so many products from lubercants to plastics are made from oil.

PS:
The windmill I mentioned above was an old water pumper, but at the time was only for decoration; our farm had gone to electric pumps over fifty years ago.

Now I am not saying they are perfect. But what tech is perfect in the first couple of generations.

To answer the question on the smoking one I would say that it is a generator or hydraulic related fire. It happens.

Ethanol will be better when they can get non food base source going. The mileage loss on Ethanol makes up for cost difference making it just like gas. Yet I know the more E85 we use the less oil we import. Where I live in California we have some of the only offshore Oil on the west coast and I want to see more. We are not going to come up with and deploy the source to rid us of oil overnight.

As to the subsidized by goverment. The Production Tax Credit aka PTC is a good way to get the investment dollars into the industry. And yes they are profitable. What hurts is the green lawsuits that tie up projects and waste money in court.

By no means am I an Enviro it's just the field I work in making a living.