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

  2. My god. Look at the mess these things make when they fail! The entire area has been contaminated!
    Oh wait. No it hasn’t. It just fell over. End of story.

  3. Now if we could just have a few hundred of these eyesores/faulty towers come tumbling down in Ontario, the Wynne mill capital of Canada.

  5. Now, let’s see you clean up that mess without burning fossil fuels. Hypocritical dipshits.
    Of course, these behemoths could never be either made, transported, erected or maintained without craploads of evil carbon being “emitted” first. But they don’t want to even hear about that. Just like the media refuses to report the avian carnage or just like electric car zealots don’t want to know about the high energy and environmental costs of mining all the special metals required to make them and their wasteful batteries.
    I understand engineers are currently experimenting with making them coal-fired on calm days.
    http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57235000/jpg/_57235827_57235415.jpg

  6. The new ones going up around St Catherines are made of concrete. Takes many more trips to get them to site. You’re going to see some epic failures with these ones.

  7. it’s the silence on the huge numbers of annual bird deaths that spoke volumes about agenda and soft sell and ideology-trumps-everything-else on the wynnd farms. the more they install the higher the death toll will be and more silence.

  8. The only unfortunate part of this is that it didn’t land on a politician who voted for this.

  9. It’s not that they make a mess when they fall down, it’s that they don’t do anything when they are standing up. As I write this the wholesale price of electricity in Ontario is negative 0.04 cents a kilowatt hour. Windmills are creating 480 megawatts of power. The producers of that power are getting 13.5 cents a kw hour. The government then pays people to take it off our hands.

  10. Exactly. And speaking of politicians, specifically to FKA gord, why don’t they put these bird wackers up in Liberal ridings?

  11. That’s kinda pretty…
    Also, kind of nice to know that Swedish drivers are as infantile as Canadian drivers and need constant reminders like tis: “as temperatures going above and below the freezing point can cause slippery conditions.”

  12. My first thoughts are…why are the breaks in this turbine so even looking.??
    ..I think they might not have used low temp welding consumables and/or these were not welded properly whatsoever (i.e. not 100% pen), or the bolting failed catastrophically ….cylindrical things like this don’t fail in nice round/”square” pieces such as what I see in this picture.
    Some ting wong hee…

  13. “…not welded properly … or the bolting failed catastrophically…”
    It was built with government subsidy, it was built because wind generation was preferred for political reasons rather than because someone had to risk their own investment on something that has to work, so why wouldn’t it be badly made?

  14. I’m no politician. They put up the towers where there is wind and where they don’t care about the people. Right now there are several projects going on from St Catherines to Port Dover. About 325 towers. The people there are pretty organized against the towers but I’ve never seen anything in the papers about them other than some small local papers. They have a good website with all the projects mapped out across Ontario. As far as I have heard no major tv or newspaper has done any positive reports on the movements to stop the towers.

  15. “My first thoughts are…why are the breaks in this turbine so even looking.??
    ..I think they might not have used low temp welding consumables and/or these were not welded properly whatsoever (i.e. not 100% pen), or the bolting failed catastrophically ….cylindrical things like this don’t fail in nice round/”square” pieces such as what I see in this picture.Some ting wong hee…”
    Hey pssst, looks like a George Bush/CIA/Bilderbergers/Masonic Lodge plot to me. I mean, there’s no way jet fuel could have caused that!

  18. “We don’t know why it fell over,” Stena Renewable’s CEO Peter Zackrisson tells Swedish Radio News. “The winds haven’t been stronger than the turbine’s maximum specifications.”
    Plus wind turbines always provided their full capacity. Sure, more BS from the unintelligentsia.

  19. Good thing that these poorly designed and built contraptions are ONLY located in remote, virgin, natural landscapes where humans are not likely to be hurt. Yeah, the transmission loss is high, but at least they are guaranteed to never spoil the Kennedy family views from their palatial estates

  22. Sorry, I didn’t mean to suggest that you were a politician. The Liberals only erect these bird wackers in ridings that vote conservative.

  24. Worth noting is that the tower seems almost new. These rigs are touted to last about 20 years, yet the Ont ones have blades flying off, transmissions seizing and catching fire, several leaning about 8 degrees, all while just completed.
    what will they be like 15 or so years down the road? It will cost someone, (guess who) millions more to dismantle these towers than it ever did to erect them. And as a bonus, the concrete pads will remain forever, a removal of cropping acreage and a testimony to Liberal foolishness.

  26. Perhaps the explanation for the unused “Bags full of “spare bolts, etc” or
    the supposedly correctly numbered installation instruction pages that were
    were somewhat hard to understand is at hand.

  27. Well shoot, the money is in erecting these subsidy mills.
    Their failure to stay standing or actually produce useful electricity?
    Somebody else’s problem.
    Starving the poor to enrich the well connected.
    Welcome to the Kleptocracy.

  29. Pining for the fjords?!?! That windmill wouldn’t move if you took 30,000 volts from it. Over 200 years. Heavily subsidized.

  32. If a windturbine feel and landed on a granola muncher gaia worshipping tree hugger would anyone care?

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