54 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans”

  5. We can expect to see more and more of these….
    In Europe, some have caught fire or exploded….One in Germany shed a blade which impaled a house roof a signifigant distance away…perhaps 1/4 of a mile.

  7. I’m guessing that the mechanism controlling the feathering of the blades failed to neutralize in a strong wind and she ripped herself apart.

  8. This disaster is way, waaaaaaay worse than the Gulf oil spil, or Chernobyl. They need to ban these things.

  9. Have they EVER be found to be an effective method of power generation or are they always on the verge?

  11. from article: “Wind farms have sprouted across large stretches of Japan over the last two decades as the resource-poor country seeks to capitalize on its natural bounty.”
    Natural bounty? WTF! Who doesn’t have wind?
    Japan’s national debt is 200+% of GDP, they simply can’t afford to subsidize these money-pit wind farms.

  13. Would love to put that picture on my wall!
    Posted by: TJ
    Go right ahead, or is someone preventing you from doing that?

  14. from article: “Wind farms have sprouted across large stretches of Japan over the last two decades as the resource-poor country seeks to capitalize on its natural bounty.”
    Natural bounty? WTF!
    Japan’s national debt is 200+% of GDP.
    They pulled out of the Kyoto Accord last year and they simply can’t afford to subsidize these money-pit wind farms.

  16. ” A strong windstorm struck the area ” Really? I have a bunch of these things in my backyard here at Swift Current. When can I expect one of these eyesores to come tumbling down here? We have strong windstorms here at least once a month! What if a car full of tourists were to be parked under one of these big fans when it decided to crap out! ……….If it only saves one life……..

  18. Now if only we could see a whole “farm” of these monstrosities crumble to the ground….

  19. Per unit of energy generated, wind is approximately as dangerous as coal generation. It’s about ten times as dangerous as nuclear power which is by far the safest means to produce electricity.
    So yes, Johnny-boy, they do need to be banned. They produce hazards in return for no useful power supply. So glad you agree.

  20. peterj-
    75 to 110 Golden Eagles, 380 Burrowing Owls, 300 Red-tailed Hawks,
    and 333 American Kestrels (falcons) are killed by Altamont California wind turbines annually.
    Killing an eagle is a $250,000 dollar fine or 2 years in prison.
    The other 933 birds are about $10,000 apiece and 1 year in jail.
    –
    The Greenish Whining Tree Hugging bastards that approved these bird choppers need to be fined 34 million dollars, average cost per bird per year,
    and put in a prison cell with a big hairy sweaty brute named Bird-man Buttafucko.

  21. That looks like the one they have beside the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto. Which I seem to remember hearing is broken these days, and has been for years now.
    Boy, imagine that baby falling on the Gardiner at rush hour, eh John. Its different when -real- people get squished, not some hayseed farmer nobody ever heard of. Right?

  23. Nothin’ a little duct tape and balin’ wire won’t fix, eh? Or maybe just kick a little dirt over it and see if it’ll decompose…

  24. All wind turbines will eventually fail, often spectacularly. This is caused by the ‘thump’ each time a blade aligns itself with the stanchion, which has a shadowing effect. It’s only a matter of how many ‘thumps’ the turbine will endure before it shreds.

  28. I think it’s kinda pretty.
    But this will never happen to The Dildo’s Korean kilowatt Kontarptions, no Sir!

  29. “Former Frasier star Kelsey Grammer told TMZ on Tuesday that wind technology was the worst investment he’s ever made.”
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/14/kelsey-grammer-i-blew-6-figures-investing-windmill/
    He seems to be competing against both big government subsidies for wind energy, and every other method of creating electricity that is less expensive / more reliable.
    I bet he got laid though, with all those Hollywood types piling on in efforts to support this madness.

  30. Just interested in how many bullets these things could take, if, ya know, they got accidently hit while out hunting? And where exactly would you not want to hit one? I don’t want one to fall on me when I’m goose hunting you see.

  33. skip, if you’re up close enough and personal enough to take photos of dead bats and murdered birds, forward the photos to your favorite blogs to expose the prairie death squads for what they are.
    Some folks have posted opinions that the owners of these wind farms, employ folks to pick up the dead bats / birds from the base of these units.
    Photos would change these opinions to… traction perhaps.
    Remember the $ millions in fines that were imposed on oil producers after a few hundred ducks landed in the Ft. Mac tailing ponds?
    Expose them. Show them for what they are. But it’s private property, I wouldn’t be shooting at them.

  35. Peter, the toryaardvark seems to be a great site, and I signed up. The picture on the site about the abandoned turbines on Hawaii show the true disaster that this another scam is.
    Our farm had two wind generator towers until power lines were brought into the area, and then they were dismantled due to high maintenance and intermittent generation.

  36. After looking at all the other bad alternatives (high subsidy / low performance renewables; very expensive oil / nat gas imports), expect the Japanese to restart nuclear.

  37. ‘HAL 3000′(linked article) suggested a better idea would be SUTs.which are Solar Updraft Towers. An astute reader noted that wind and solar are the mainstay of the subsidy crowd.
    Combine wind and solar and you get double the subsidy and smugness in one project.
    I had to look up these SUTs to see what they are. Wow,the one planned for Arizona is awe-inspiring,collosal they say,like a great shirt. A mere 2,625 feet tall. It will cost about $750 million to erect and put out 200 megawatts every ???.
    The EnviroMission people say that it will produce 200 megawatts of power,enough for 150,000 homes and will pay for itself in 11 years. That sounds like one for te ‘Math is Hard’ people. I tried to figure it out on paper and calclated that for that to be true the average electricity bill for each house would be around $50 per month. I don’t even know if 200 megawatts is enough for 150,000 houses,it doesn’t sound adequate to me,maybe it is. Then again,these people are saving the planet and only haters would question them.
    http://www.digitaltrends.com/green-technology/arizona-getting-colossal-solar-updraft-tower-in-2015/

  38. I also noticed that spelling errors remain invisible in ‘preview’. Calcate,te,and maybe shirt come to mind.

  41. The problem with that concept is that it has little to do with conservation. There is no reason to conserve as we are fully capable to produce the capacity required as well as meet future requirements. The only thing blocking progress is the notion that we are harming the planet and the brainwashed fools that are doing more harm than good in their misguided efforts to push inefficient technology. The real culprits are the politicians and civic leaders that cater to these moonbats for a few votes and the underlying prospect of taxing a .038% trace gas essential for life. Our leadership continues to prove that a good education and common sense are incompatible.

  42. Excellent point, Kate. We all know that coal and nuclear plants never falter. Oil rigs have 100% uptime as well. Equipment never breaks unless it’s wind or solar powered. Especially solar, so many moving parts.

  44. Tim, when a coal or gas plant fails, we get it back up and running and it immediately is making money, not losing money like these big fans and mirrors.

  45. Another fine “Industry” brought to you by government hysteria.
    The hypocrisy of these useless ornaments is monumental.
    When our experts produce such creations, its time to decouple them from the public purse.
    When we do that, pigs squealing will be an understatement.
    One of the lessons bankrupt and thus chastened taxpayers could take here, is imposed responsibility, somehow these weasels of our elected&appointed royalty, mange to be rewarded for their “responsibilities”, whilst accepting no costs of their failures.
    When destruction of public wealth and private assets results, they shall pay.
    Currently these cretins get promoted for being thieves and sycophants, retire to avoid the repercussions of their criminal behaviour and have a fully funded media running cover for their idiocy.
    Unless we shrink the bureaus, they will consume all. As they now do.
    Only fools would continue to fall for the line of reasoning we Canadians suck up so willingly.
    We need government, they help us so?
    The Samuel Adams? money quote,” Govt is a poor servant. But an tyrannical master” or what ever the exact wording, is being demonstrated daily across canada, clowns who have never built an outhouse are regulating those of us who still build wealth.Demanding the majority of that wealth, using threat of violence and dreaming that we will continue to produce for their pleasure.

  46. Actually, John, you are correct.
    When you compare the total volume of water in the Gulf of Mexico and the total amount of oil that leaked into the Gulf, it is the equivalent of one half ounce of oil in a normal sized bathtub filled to the top. It’s still not nice when it happens but one must keep it’s actual impact in perspective when one considers the uselessness of these turbines.
    Chernobyl didn’t stop the leftist French. 85% of electricity in France is generated with nuclear. If France says it’s safe, you can bet it is considering how they look at the world.

  47. Japan is flipping all their reactors back on. The new government already knows that renewables won’t cut it, Japan is a very power hungry nation, the hubby is from there I’ve lived there. The anti-nuclear power plant people are an exceptionally small minority, though anti-nuclear weapons is pretty strong all the way through as you can guess.
    There’s a story on the new government flipping the reactors back on here: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/27/idUSL4N0A13QS20121227

  48. The best thing about wind turbines is the entertainment they’ll provide pilots during bombing raids.

  49. The blades are on the upwind side of the tower, so there’s no thumping flex. Big or small, they now are controlled in such a way as to keep the blades upwind.
    I suspect brake failure. There is a spectacular video of one of these failing in a strong wind, and it is spinning several times faster than the others before catastrophe strikes. Check it out on Youtube.

  50. there is still a thumping effect, that they are up wind just changes the actual cause slightly, not the fact that the thumping exists. Also the blades will start to “flex ripple” at a certain “speed”, which is one of the problems that restricts a copper speed. And then you have ultra sound (around 7 cps) to contend with!!!!

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