CROWELL, Texas – A lightning storm caused quite a shocking scene after it zapped a massive wind turbine in North Texas, setting it ablaze before it came tumbling down.
Shortly after being struck, the wind turbine continued to spin, sending the flames in a loop and leaving rings of smoke behind.
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I have always wondered are these things Insured, or do they have a note on them. nevermind it's probably the taxpayer that foots the bill.
Yeppers! You got THAT right! If "Black Jesus" hadn't mandated that power companies purchase wind/solar, there would be a few million less of the damned things screwing up the landscape! 🤬
Point # 1 The (d)'s want to cry that the Gov't should not subsidize fossil fuels.... but it's okay that the Gov't subsidizes wind and solar! 🐎💩! At least the Gov't gets something back out of fossil fuels in the form of road and highway taxes. Wind and solar provide no revenue back into the economy and are unreliable as hell!
Point #2 Those wind turbine blades are made of fiberglass due to weight restrictions. Guess what? The resins in fiberglass are petroleum based..... as are probably 99.5% of all wind turbine/solar panel components! No "petro"? No "Green Nude Eel"!
Far as I’m concerned, that could happen to every one of those ugly ass mofos. They phuque up the scenery worst that any messkin subdivision
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CROWELL, Texas – A lightning storm caused quite a shocking scene after it zapped a massive wind turbine in North Texas, setting it ablaze before it came tumbling down.
Shortly after being struck, the wind turbine continued to spin, sending the flames in a loop and leaving rings of smoke behind.
On a wind farm how many acres does each wind generator require? I assume no food production can take place on the land designated as a wind farm?
I hunt a number of farms with windmills in the middle of the crop fields. They sure seem a lot bigger (and noisier) when you're standing under one than they look from the expressway.
They are a blight on the landscape and I hate seeing 'em go up in the Kansas Flint Hills.
On a wind farm how many acres does each wind generator require? I assume no food production can take place on the land designated as a wind farm?
Very little land is taken out of production on a wind farm. About the only thing lost is the tower site, and road to it. Plus there is a few acres for an electric substation for the wind farm to interconnect to a transmission line. You can farm, and cattle can graze right up to the base of tower. My son is a sky cowboy (works for a wind farm). What most people don't know is the amount of dino oil a tower requires. The hydraulic system alone holds about 80 gal. But the greenies think wind power is the answer for everything.
On a wind farm how many acres does each wind generator require? I assume no food production can take place on the land designated as a wind farm?
Very little land is taken out of production on a wind farm. About the only thing lost is the tower site, and road to it. Plus there is a few acres for an electric substation for the wind farm to interconnect to a transmission line. You can farm, and cattle can graze right up to the base of tower. My son is a sky cowboy (works for a wind farm). What most people don't know is the amount of dino oil a tower requires. The hydraulic system alone holds about 80 gal. But the greenies think wind power is the answer for everything.
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OK, I'm glad at least food production can continue.
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That thing was making some pretty cool smoke rings before it all fell apart. What I don't understand is with so many windmills around now that they must have to some type of lightning protection system engineered in from the start. Anything that tall made mostly of metal that stands out in an open area is gonna get struck by lightning sooner or later. But then; I once thought all windmills could survive cold temperatures and ice storms, too. Until they had a rough winter in Texas.
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