We Don't Need No Stinking Giant Fans

I wonder just how much taxpayer dollars were spent on that company?

At least it was venture capital. Hopes were high as seen by the quest for a CEO. Too bad they weren't smart enough to understand that without huge government subsidies they were doomed before they got off the ground.

http://entrepreneurship.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/users/clp7/Optiwind_9-27-10.pdf

That's not a wind turbine.It's just an elevated fan. Come to Ontario and see what a real turbine looks like. A 38 story behemoth that can be seen from miles away.

Related:

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2013/10/20131025-161159.html

Employment Minister Jason Kenney has a blunt message anyone hoping Canada's energy industry will dry up.

"Until we invent the famous dilithium crystals from Star Trek, which I understand are produced by crushing unicorn horns ... oil and gas will continue to be the mainstay of the global energy market," Kenney told the World Petroleum Council Youth Forum in Calgary on Friday.

Couldn't have said it better myself...

Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

I wish they wouldn't use "It's" wrong.

Man buddy in the JD must really have a set.

That tractor was sure tied close to the tower.

So nice to see a bird blender bite the dust -- if anyone decides to make a youtube video of multiple bird blenders going down, Queen's Another One Bites the Dust would be appropriate background music.

Nice to see Jason Kenny providing some sanity in response to watermelon idiocy. So, if ground up unicorn horns are the source of dilithium crystals, what about unicorn farts? Doesn't Kenny worry about what will happen to hornless unicorns as the LIV's in the US try to make a killing with homemade dilithium crystals?

Oh! How the mighty are falling.

Would have made a great tree fort for some farm kid, if they had left it standing.

couldn't they had a dozen green piss activists climb up that structure and ride down with it. I'm sure the Russians would have helped out on the supply of said activists:-)))

Hang 'em all. Oui?

"Greenpeace activist hangs from Eiffel Tower to push for release of detainees in Russia" (G-M)

Watching the video didn't move me quite to tears, but it is a shame about the tower. Too bad they couldn't just lop the framistat off the top and put a nice deer blind on it.

Kenney doesn't know sh*t - Starfleet vessels are powered by matter/anti-matter reactions in the warp core. The dilithium crystals are the only natural substance able to focus and direct the energy output of the reaction to the warp nacelles, which use the energy to create a stable warp bubble around the ship, moving it from normal space to subspace, which then moves through by adjusting the geometry of the warp bubble to pull it in the desired direction.

Unicorn horns have nothing to do with it, and dilithium is definitely NOT a source of energy.
(sorry - it just maddening that nobody in our supposedly science-friendly gov't understands basic warp physics)

Perhaps this is what should be done to all those "bird butchers" east of Torrington, Alberta (and across Canada.) I saw them pollute the view from Trochu, while I was in area doing a show. .

This is a very good start.

the smell of sweet schadenfreude

There is hope in our children seeing again the sky's in the future.
Glad I put more money into scarp metal shares.

That scarp metal is rare stuff. The sky's what in the future? Can't anybody write, spell or grammify beyond a grade two level? SHEESH!

Looked like a pretty damn stupid design for a wind turbine. Two hundred foot steel tower with a shack on top, flanked by two smallish fans. Way too much structure, way too little swept area for the fan blades. The tower had to resist not only the shear loading created by the wind force against the fans (which contributes to output power) but also the shear loading created by wind force against the shack, which contributes nothing to output power, and could have been located on the ground.

It appears that it was a rather successful trap for catching suckers.

Just for the record, Star Wars > Star Trek.

There's been a bit of an awakening in flat broke, green mad Liberal Ontario, the wind turbine capital of North America. People are actually turning out to protest against "planting" wind "farms" in their areas.

my relatives in SW ontario would love to see this happen to a bunch near their homes!!

2 excellent things about this video. One it shows the future of wind power. Two it provides a decent how to. Granted the ones in Ontario are different.