October 27, 2023
Get your head round this!
Ponder this for a moment. ��
The wind farm in Mt. Pulaski has been running for just and only 3 1/2
years. They have been replacing the generators in all the wind towers.
There are 100 of them in this wind farm. So evidently the life span on
the generators on these things appears to be just about 3 to 4 years.
It takes 12 semi trucks and trailers, A 9 axle 500,000 pound crane, A
100,000 pound crane and 12 pick up trucks to change each generator.
That is a huge amount of diesel fuel being used to maintain these wind
towers. And the "Green Groups" would like You to believe they are all
fuelled by magic fairy dust.
Right now the average wind
farm is about 150 turbines. Each wind turbine needs 80 gallons of oil
as lubricant and we're not talking about vegetable oil, this is a PAO
synthetic oil based on crude... 12,000 gallons of it. That oil needs to
be replaced once a year.
It is estimated that a little over 3,800
turbines would be needed to power a city the size of New York... That's
304,000 gallons of refined oil for just one city.
Now you have to
calculate every city across the nation, large and small, to find the
grand total of yearly oil consumption from "clean" energy.
Where do you think all that oil is going to come from, the fricken oil fairies?
Not to mention the fact that the large equipment needed to build these
wind farms run on petroleum. As well as the equipment required for
installation, service, maintenance, and eventual removal.
And just exactly how eco-friendly is wind energy anyway?
Each turbine requires a footprint of 1.5 acres, so a wind farm of 150
turbines needs 225 acres; In order to power a city the size of NYC
you'd need 57,000 acres; and who knows the astronomical amount of land
you would need to power the entire US. All of which would have to be
clear-cut land because trees create a barrier & turbulence that
interferes with the 20mph sustained wind velocity necessary for the
turbine to work properly (also keep in mind that not all states are
suitable for such sustained winds). Boy, cutting down all those trees
is gonna piss off a lot of green-loving tree-huggers
Let's talk about disposal now.
The lifespan of a modern, top quality, highly efficient wind turbine is 20 years.
After that, then what? What happens to those gigantic fiber composite blades?
They cannot economically be reused, refurbished, reduced, repurposed,
or recycled so guess what..? It's off to special landfills they go.
And guess what else..? They're already running out of these special
landfill spaces for the blades that have already exceeded their
usefulness. Seriously! Those blades are anywhere from 120 ft. to over
200 ft. long and there are 3 per turbine. And that's with only 7% of
the nation currently being supplied with wind energy. Just imagine if
we had the other 93% of the nation on the wind grid... 20 years from
now you'd have all those unusable blades with no place to put them...
Then 20 years after that, and 20 years after that, and so on.
Golly gee, how green is that?
Oops, I almost forgot about the 500,000 birds that are killed each year
from wind turbine blade collisions; most of which are endangered hawks,
falcons, owls, geese, ducks, and eagles.
Apparently smaller birds
are more agile and able to dart and dodge out of the way of the
spinning blades, whereas the larger soaring birds aren't so lucky.
I'm sure the wildlife conservationist
I'm so glad the wind energy people are looking out for the world.
What do you think eh?
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