According to the Peninsula Daily:
‘The turbines will power the 31 lights that illuminate the park,’ Deputy Power Systems Manager Shailesh Shere said last week.
‘They can generate up to 3 kilowatts an hour but under normal conditions will generate a quarter of that,’ Shere said.
Shere said they are expected to generate $1.50 worth of electricity a month, based on current retail Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) rates.
The Peninsula Daily News has since updated the story with more accurate information. Though still low savings, they now say it’s $1.39 worth of savings a day.
Of course, this is quite embarrassing but, according to the City Councilmember Sissi Bruch, the turbines “… were also meant to educate folks about wind power.” Something tells me she doesn’t think the lesson that “wind power is useless and costly” was the education she had in mind. She now regrets the expenditure. more
Is that boxer related to Brad?
Sadly I doubt that was the worst local investment ever. I’m sure if they actually calculated all the associated costs involved with maintenance and ownership they’d be far more disgusted. Local tax payers should be revolting over crap like this.
According to my calculations, at a buck and a half per month they should recover their original investment in just over 5,973 years, not including maintenance costs.
Still a better plan than Obamacare, though.
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The best part? If you read the article from the local paper, many of those who voted for this waste of money do not regret their votes, even after learning the numbers.
Ladies and gentlemen–this is your money. This is progressives with your money. Any questions?
I wonder how many birds like bald eagles it will kill? Where’s PETA?
They updated the article to reflect about $42 per month, or about $500 per year. Also in the article, that’s a quarter of the capacity of the turbines. So they knew, before funding this, that the best possible case was about $2,000 per year on an investment of over $100k. and they still did it. It’s one thing when you actually think it could save money, another when you absolutely know it won’t but do it anyway.
Is that Scooter’s Sissi? She’s gone off the deep end of the pier!
I think the problem is a lack of Vitamin D in the NW. Women here are nuts!
When the $30 20 year fancy pants LED light bulbs burns out times 31 lights, this place will never even come close to that $1.39
Hope Trump stops all federal government funding for wind and solar. Jails should be full of last 8 year’s shysters.
The only reason that “Sissi” regrets her decision is that the numbers have come out and she and the council look like dicks even in a lefty state like Washington. Hell, the populace is probably getting mad at them for such an obvious screwup on these wind turbines when the money could have been far better spent creating mobile safe zones that could be called to wherever a snowflake was experiencing a breakthrough of reality in their own little world.
Anything that’s labeled “green” you can pretty much bet it doesn’t work – including household cleansers and detergent.
Considering the flatulence along the entire West coast it’s just more proof that the shit is hitting the fan.
recover their original investment in just over 5,973 years
Don’t fret. The wind turbines will be torn down in 20-25 years when their bearings are fried.
“Symbolism over substance” has always been the liberal motto. Same with “good intentions always trump results”.
With OPM these kinds of investments are “no-brainers” – literally – as the left demonstrates daily.
Dumbfucks.
I certainly HAVE been educated about dipshit power…
Three kilowatts per hour? The units are nonsensical. Probably means 3 kW-Hr per hour. In other words, 3 kW.
Should pay for itself in another 196 years….
With all the hot CO2 spewing out of those politicians, there shouldn’t be any problem getting those windmills to work 24×7.
Try explaining a “break-even” point to your run-of-the-mill voting morons, or their elected officials. We (our county) installed a heating system in the High School with a 56 year “break-even” point. Even though the County Council knew that the “break-even” point was far beyond the life expectancy of the heating system, they justified it by fact that it was financed by a Dept. of Education “grant.” The fact that the “grant” money was coerced, through taxation, from people whose children will NEVER benefit from the heating system was considered poor taste to bring up. And bear in mind that this is a county that can boast only 750 Demonrats out of a population of 10,000.
And the beat goes on …
izlamo delenda est …
By my calculations it will pay for itself in only 211 years. What a deal.
The Northwest is infested with Libstains. They’re destroying everything. In Thurston County They partnered with psychopaths at the EPA to declare a common species of gopher “endangered”. Then, they set about shutting down all construction they can in defense of gopher holes. If you buy a lot, intending to build your dream home… you first need an EPA inspection that can ONLY OCCUR in the last few months of summer. If they find a rodent, your property is then worthless. But if you were hoping to start building mid summer? Forget it. You could end up waiting until the following year before you can even get an okay to build. This is another of the many economy destroying tricks of the Obutthole administration.