EAG: NORTHWOOD, Iowa – An Iowa school district is trying to off load a massive wind turbine it purchased over a decade ago that hasn’t lived up to its hype.
Officials with Northwood-Kinsett Schools purchased a 250-kilowatt wind turbine in 2002 for $68,000 after they were sold on the idea the device could produce $12,000 to $14,000 in electricity each year, but it turns out the predictions were overblown, the Mason City Globe Gazette reports. More
A cat would enjoy sitting underneath that thing. It could eat all the birds that get smacked.
A cat would enjoy sitting underneath that thing. It couldd eat all the birds that get smacked.
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Sorry about the double. The first post didn’t show up for so long I posted again. Sheez.
I don’t remember any hype involving wind turbines.
Citation???
wind and solar?
What about ETHANOL? Only the newer plants can survive now, without subsidies that whole industry is a joke.
If Bernie has his way we’ll be pedaling bikes for it.
Can you imagine how he’d sweat pedaling a bike?
ANNOUNCER: It’s… Don Quixote for the WIN !!
He wouldn’t, we would.
Those things probably take 20 years to pay for themselves and only last 10.
The small town I live in has a factory that builds (or built) ladder systems for these turbines (the inside is hollow and the ladder system goes to the top for maintenance and repairs). For a few years they ran 2 shifts and the parking lot was always full.
Now that the subsidies stopped for the turbines, the factory has a skeleton crew on one shift to make trash cans and small residential / industrial ladders.
Oh, my God! Oh, the humanity!
Too soon?
Boom and bust. The socialist way. Instead of a solid, robust economy.
They built one for three million dollars here at the VA hospital several years ago. It has never worked to this day.
Even on the windiest of days there’s not the least bit of motion from the blades. On the bright side though, It has yet to kill even one bird.
The same bunch of Talented & Gifted Education PhDs probably bitched like hell when some telco wanted to pay to put up a cell tower on school property.
I have read that there are over 14,000 abandoned wind turbines in the US because the energy they produce is insufficient to pay for their required maintenance.
Here is a gif of one being retired:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VcWyIEI0I2c/Uz1u31I5PkI/AAAAAAAAIc8/ZBq_ZYAKcdY/s1600/BirdshredderFail.gif