Wind Farms?

[Mooseherder]

Sounds like fun Pappy.
Are the Fish biting yet?

[florida]

TexasSawMiller has made some pretty strong claims for wind.  The easiest way to refute baloney is with truth. Here's the latest chart from Bonneville Power showing how much wind power they are producing.
http://www.transmission.bpa.gov/business/operations/Wind/baltwg.aspx

The top line is total load and the bottom line is wind generated power. You can quickly see that on March 20th and the 23rd the windmills produced practically nothing and never produced capacity. Less anyone claim this is unusual click the link at the top of the page to go back through previous weeks, it's always the same and this is for windmills in prime locations. Bonneville Power has spent $3 billion dollars on windmills, most of which taxpayers paid for through subsidies that pay about 70% of the cost in 5 years. Bonneville Power makes money on their windmills not through power generation but through those subsidies which we pay for.

If this is not enough to convince anyone I'll be glad to post charts from Ireland or Germany showing the same results or worse.

[TexasSawmiller]

TexasSawMiller has made some pretty strong claims for wind.  The easiest way to refute baloney is with truth. Here's the latest chart from Bonneville Power showing how much wind power they are producing.
http://www.transmission.bpa.gov/business/operations/Wind/baltwg.aspx

The top line is total load and the bottom line is wind generated power. You can quickly see that on March 20th and the 23rd the windmills produced practically nothing and never produced capacity. Less anyone claim this is unusual click the link at the top of the page to go back through previous weeks, it's always the same and this is for windmills in prime locations. Bonneville Power has spent $3 billion dollars on windmills, most of which taxpayers paid for through subsidies that pay about 70% of the cost in 5 years. Bonneville Power makes money on their windmills not through power generation but through those subsidies which we pay for.

If this is not enough to convince anyone I'll be glad to post charts from Ireland or Germany showing the same results or worse.

Bonneville huh?  Well, hate to burst your bubble Florida, but Bonneville is a ways away from Texas

Like I said, some of the sites don't generate anywhere near capacity.  West Texas does alot better due to the prevailing winds

Have no idea how well Ireland or Germany do.  Frankly, I don't care.

Folks I'm not trying to start a flame war; far from it.  I'm giving you knowledge from my experiences here in Texas, where the parks will generate nearly at optimum with optimum winds.

Maybe thats why FPL has sites here in Texas and not in Florida?

Anyhoo.


I'm here to learn about sawmills, so off to anther part of the forum

[TexasSawmiller]

Welcome Texas Sawmiller I think the dimensions I mentioned were based on overall specs not individual pieces From 2 miles away I dont think anyone would notice 100 ft more or less Just a thought

Ahh I see, ok

Put together with a blade straight up it would be over 400 feet tall.  My bad for missing that point Mr T.

It will take up 10 miles of mt top there 400 ft high with 240 ft blades

The above line is what I'm looking at. Blades are still far less than 240 feet

[windy hill farm]

Hey guys I have a lot of wind towers about 1/2 mile from my house. Most of the local farmers would probably be out of business if it werent for the wind towers on there property. The other thing is the tax breaks for all property owners in town. The one thing I never here from the nimbys is that they want to help the farmers with there taxes. As far as I can tell nobody owes me a view of the country side. Just my opinion. p.s. wish I had 3or4 on my property, I would have ordered the WMLTsuper40 instead of the LT28 manual. Kevin Ellenburg N.Y.

[routestep]

My camp isn't in Danforth, it's at Stentson mountain. I look up and see the windmills that are in that picture Brad S. put up on the site here. I can hear them when they are turning and I'm a 20 minute walk up the mountain from to them. Maybe half mile or 3/4 miles. I don't get any money from them, neither does the county I live in. Give me a while and I might remember the company that has leased out the mountain for twenty years. I'm in Penobscot and the windmills are in Washington Co. Like I said earlier the sound they make is a pulsating noise as if every time a blade passes in front of the support tower.  Its not a loud noise but it is there pulsing through the woods. I'd rather listen to the wing beats of the ravens when they pass overhead than the windmills over on the mountain.