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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
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ROTFLMAO
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It was not killed when Reagan came to office. I worked on the windmill program and it lasted over 10 years. NASA built several sizes of wind turbines. From the first 250 KW one to the huge 2 MW ones. I had to go up in the nacelle and maintain the equipment gathering data. The company I worked for had at one point three vans fitted out with monitoring equipment. There were at one point over 11 monsters going at once. All of the wind turbines made tapes that would be replaced every three days. Those tapes would then be run through the data system in Sandusky, Ohio NASA facility. I was one of the people who made the digital data tapes to go to the processing center to be analyzed as well at times going on site to the turbines.
Your ignorance is appalling. The places where the wind conditions are good enough are mountain passes. If you leave the LA area and go over the mountains you will see farms of the smaller wind turbines. While a wind turbine can generate electricity as low as 5 mph the problem is it does not put out much current. It needs more power to generate power. If you set them behind one another the ones in the back will not generate any power at that wind speed. The wind speed drops as you go through a wind turbine.-
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Tangent0011 year, 1 month ago
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"The places where the wind conditions are good enough are mountain passes."
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I beg to differ. There is a large wind farm in northern Colorado, another near my best friend's uncle's property in Oklahoma, where we frequently go fishing, and a HUGE one east of Los Angeles. These are just the ones I've personally seen. The one outside LA is VERY old technology.
Have you ever even BEEN to Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Texas? The wind blows constantly and swiftly.
"If you set them behind one another the ones in the back will not generate any power at that wind speed." I have yet to see a wind farm where the turbines are set one behind the other. The Oklahoma farm was in a long line along higher ridges as is the Colorado one. The LA one had staggered rows and/or rows at different elevations.
We've had some good exchanges, and I don't appreciate you calling me 'ignorant'.
I appreciate your experience with wind turbines, but you don't ever mention the results of all your data.-
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
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In my job I have not been to Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Idaho. One of the Wind turbines I worked on was in New Mexico near the Texas and Oklahoma borders. They had 2 MOD-2's there. 2 Mega Watt turbines. There is wind in the morning and it dies in the afternoon. Stays dead until morning again. About 8 hours of good wind. Not enough. Constant wind is the need not windy now and calm later. The places you are describing are good ones. The problem is that there are not enough of those places. I have seen wind turbine farms that had several rows that were at staggered elevations. What happens when they are placed on the side of a large hill like that is the wind increases speed going up the hill. The staggered elevations count on upper wind not being slowed down by going through a wind turbine. There is about a 5 mph drop depending on the size and number of blades.
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I saw a map that NASA made about where the wind was acceptable for wind turbines. Not very many places. People will think that a place is very windy. But it is not constant. That is the problem. Another problem is they are only cost effective when the price of fuel is over a certain limit. I forget the number but many of them were built more to test the concept than to make money off of the turbines.
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Jeboba1 year, 1 month ago
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lessee now, it lasted over 10 years, so you're putting yourself in the 1980-1990 time frame? The technology has improved incredibly in the ensuing 18 years! Far more efficient generators have been developed, etc.
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Only work in mountain passes? Jeez, what a stupid remark. Here in Florida, anywhere along either coast generate constant sea breezes more than capable of significant generation.
I guess the secret to your sucess in your own mind is that you are living in the PAST!-
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
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Foolish person. I live in Sarasota Florida. The wind is not constant and it takes a lot to make a wind turbine cat 5 proof. Think before you write. The sea breezes are not constant. They come and go. There are times that the wind stops entirely. The breezes are caused by the heating and cooling that happens on the land in relation to the sea. Tell your story to someone who does not live here.
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