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re: TX Wind Turbine Struck by Lighting, Turns Into Spinning Wheel of Fire

Posted on 7/23/22 at 12:10 pm to
Posted by Auburn1968
NYC
Member since Mar 2019
26508 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 12:10 pm to
Puerto Rico had some fine solar and wind farms paid from by American taxpayers, but the hurricane ate them.

Posted by KAGTASTIC
Member since Feb 2022
7989 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 12:10 pm to
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please remove your Trump-colored glasses


So all people were on the "global warming" bandwagon prior to 2016. Got it. Smfh

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When putting all these events together, how can anyone not agree there's a climate emergency?


So dramatic. As if climate change hasn't been occurring since the beginning of time. "Recorded history" is barely a drop in the ocean of time. Hey...in case you didn't know, earth use to essentially have only one landmass. Crazy huh??

You fail to prove that it's man-made though. And how all of these renewable options are truly a better solution that will stop this so called "emergency" of yours.

Get back to the drawing board on your alarmist hissy fit. Until then many of us will learn to adapt to the ebbs and flows of Mother Natures menopause, just like everyone in the history of the world has done.
Posted by ksayetiger
Centenary Gents
Member since Jul 2007
70335 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 12:11 pm to
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Now one destructive EF3 tornado in Texas in April doesn't affirm climate change, but...please remove your Trump-colored glasses and just look around you at today's weather across America:


I remember quite well when I was in 3rd grade (1986) and the hole in the ozone was causing severe weather all over the planet. If we didn't close the hole the world was going to end because the Polar ice caps would melt.

Guess what? There is more ice in the antarctic than there was then.
Posted by Allister Fiend
Member since Jan 2016
1070 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 12:15 pm to
Yet I recently read they wanted some near Galveston. Surely nothing tropical would damage them.

On a different note you’d think someone would have mastered some kind of generator based on tidal movement.
Posted by Taxing Authority
Houston
Member since Feb 2010
63364 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 12:16 pm to
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We can always rely on solar!
To be fair, those are cheap-azz panels. IBOC panels will still work even if the cell is fractured.
Posted by Auburn1968
NYC
Member since Mar 2019
26508 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 12:21 pm to
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On a different note you’d think someone would have mastered some kind of generator based on tidal movement.


Water packs 800 times the power of wind and most of the world is covered in ocean. Waves generally run 24/7 all years.

Posted by cwill
Member since Jan 2005
54755 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 12:23 pm to
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Into Spinning Wheel of Fire


A new spin on a Johnny Cash tune.
Posted by real turf fan
East Tennessee
Member since Dec 2016
11936 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 12:26 pm to
There is a small generator up in Canada on a town next to the Bay of Fundy that has been working for at least 50 years.
Several decades ago the French announced a pilot plan to harvest Atlantic tidal energy. I haven't seen a followup from pre internet days.

The Rance Tidal Power Station in France was opened in 1966 and was the largest in the world until a larger one opened in Korea.
This post was edited on 7/23/22 at 12:31 pm
Posted by Quidam65
Q Continuum
Member since Jun 2010
20515 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 12:28 pm to
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Probably scorched thousands of birds to death. Burnt up dead birds piled up under that thing.




"I flew in to a burning wheel of fire
I went down down down and the flames went higher
And it burns burns burns, the wheel of fire
The wheel of fire"
Posted by Allister Fiend
Member since Jan 2016
1070 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 12:33 pm to
Probably not enough government subsidies.

All kidding aside, it would have been awesome to see what Tesla could have really done. His idea of capturing “free” energy based on the magnetic field was interesting. Lots of modern technologies were written in his notes a 100 years ago and believed to be impractical.
Posted by Bulldogblitz
In my house
Member since Dec 2018
28161 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 12:36 pm to
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But china makes 80% of the turbines so it is ok.


Believe the other 20% are from mexico.
Posted by LSUvet72
Member since Sep 2013
13103 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 12:36 pm to
Big fireworks display for Green Libs.

Posted by Westbank111
Armpit of America
Member since Sep 2013
4592 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 12:42 pm to
Marxist motto

“The ends justify the means”

To end the greatest free country on the planet by all means necessary. Make the USA incompetent and beholden to the world. Their plan is working like a charm!
Posted by Westbank111
Armpit of America
Member since Sep 2013
4592 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 12:43 pm to
Super ugly, and they are even worse in the water, US GULF, Atlantic & Pacific Oceans.

Screws with the navigation and seafarers safety!

I hate windmills the most out of all alternatives, and that’s saying a lot!
Posted by jnethe1
Pearland
Member since Dec 2012
17842 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 12:52 pm to
Someone make that a gif.
Posted by coolpapaboze
Parts Unknown
Member since Dec 2006
21820 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 12:59 pm to
Where’s Doc Brown when you need him? 1.21 gigawatts?????!
Posted by KAGTASTIC
Member since Feb 2022
7989 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 1:20 pm to
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Super ugly, and they are even worse in the water, US GULF, Atlantic & Pacific Oceans


As someone, like so many, who grew up staring out the back window of the family car as we road tripped all around this nation, it is really sad how much landscape of this country has been ruined by the hippies that said they were "earth first".

I'm looking forward to seeing the report that states how many carbon credits this windmill company will be charged for all of that black smoke it emitted into the air....oh right that's (d)ifferent.
Posted by blueridgeTiger
Granbury, TX
Member since Jun 2004
22285 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 1:58 pm to
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Someone make that a gif.


Is this what you want?

Posted by Wisdomcries
BR
Member since Jul 2022
171 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 2:32 pm to
You know that’s how industry and government have worked in this country sin forever right
Posted by jnethe1
Pearland
Member since Dec 2012
17842 posts
Posted on 7/23/22 at 2:34 pm to
Yes, thank you

Sending that to my democrat cousin. Should get a great response.
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