The New York State Thruway Authority — the governing body of a major toll highway that runs across the state — has taken part in New York’s attempts to transition to renewable energy. From 2013 to 2015, the authority built five wind turbines along the thruway in the western corner of the state.
The project was expensive, with the five windmills costing $4.8 million and another $500,000 for design expenditures. The authority believed that the turbines would pay for themselves, saving as much as $420,000 annually on energy bills.
However, the project did not go as planned.
Depends on what the plan was.
Why is it, you suppose? That the first laws they always work on, are the ones that indemnify them from paying for their own decisions.
Judges and prosecutors cannot be held personally liable for wrongful convictions.
Saskpower still charges you full price no matter how many outages.
No matter how long you wait for a hip, no one in government will have pay docked.
No matter how little power or how expensive it is, none of the people who made that happen will ever be affected.
The article States that a Windmill lasts on average 20 to 25 years. In reality the average is much lower from a functioning point of view. Don’t hear much talk on who’s going to pay for round two when this junk craps out.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2254901/Wind-turbines-half-long-previously-thought-study-shows-signs-wearing-just-12-years.html
“The lifespan of a windmill typically spans 20 to 25 years, but these turbines began to break down in less than three.”
Yah, love that little line of misinformation in the article. That’s like saying your car lasts on average 20-25. While technically true, the amount of maintenance, operational costs, insurance, etc are multiple times higher than procurement and installation costs. Plus, just like a car, no matter how much you maintain it a 20 year old turbine is still an old turbine and its performance is significantly lower than a new one.
It’s more deceit than just the number of years. The deceit is in the fact that there is a number to begin with.
The MSM and politicians (progs for short) love to differentiate “renewable energy”, such as wind, solar, hydro, and even “biomass”. In actuality, everything has a shelf life. The better ones may extend that shelf life with some maintenance.
They estimate that windmills last 20-25 years before requiring major maintenance (as opposed to regular minor maintenance such as cleaning and oiling) From what I have been able to read, major maintenance may not even be possible, because no one makes the parts anymore, as is the case here.
If that’s how things normally work, then a windmill has a life of 25 years max, period. After that it stops operation. So that’s no more renewable than an oil well is “renewable” year after year, until it runs dry, then it stops operation. The total amount of energy output by a windmill in that 25 years must be divided by everything that goes into building that windmill and maintaining it to get the actual MW/$, or whatever. Because as I said, after that it stops operation. And it would come to only a few percent of oil or gas. You can also calculate the MW/(tons of CO2), and I bet you that is comparable than oil or gas.
What are you talking about!? Everything requires maintenance, therefore your premise is flawed. Why … just consider the downtime when oil refineries are maintained and rebuilt from hurricane damage. The cost of your gasoline goes up, supplies dwindle, while my Tesla is fed from the one operational renewable, clean, green, wonnnnnderful windmill and solar panels in the static, inert, CA desert. /sarc. off
It’s really amusing how easily the Captain-Planet generation are led around by slogans such as “clean”, “green”, and “renewable”. Because these are slogans. Classic Communist … slogans. The Captain-Planet generations were led to believe that their cartoons were … “science” … so now as they have matriculated into the boardrooms and legislatures … they reflexively substitute slogans for science in every decision made. With the predictable results.
Fer crying out loud … just consider CA’s “high speed train” … ? Even the world-expert French train manufacturer says that they cannot deliver the necessary speeds to achieve the travel times promised to the public SUCKERS who voted for this “slogan-railway”. The “slogan-budget” has already tripled … and keeps going higher. The “slogan-speed” of “high” will never be achieved. The “slogan-cheap-fare” will never be achieved. The “slogan-travel-time” will never be realized. But it all “sounded” sooooo wonderful to the Captain-Planet-maleducated simpleton CA Voters. It sounded just as wonnnnnnderful as a half-black President with a Muslim name who wagged a folded index finger and said DEFINITIVELY … “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” (what a wonnnnnnderful “slogan”). And … “if you like your insurance Co., you can keep your insurance Co.”. The architect of Obamakkare even laughed in the face of the American public who lapped-up these “slogans” without questioning.
Even the European high speed trains run at only a fraction (40%?) of their posted speed. The operating and maintenance costs are just too high.
Any state run by the STUPID JACKASS PARTY(Liberal democrats)needs to have their budgets cut back Cuomo is a blabbering idiot
A little research will show that the hard working ‘experts’ behind this program got performance bonuses!
And were invited to make multiple PAID speeches to environmental groups, corporate assemblies, and other governmental agencies.
Inoperable parts from a now bankrupt French company. Saw that one coming. The spin will be “if only we had put more money into these companies, they wouldn’t be bankrupt and we could get our parts…”.
In a related story … Cheap Chinese solar panels still dominate markets throughout the world.
And apparently they’re now catching on fire.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/826553/Solar-panel-fire-fears-BRE-flats-east-London-Bethnal-Green
http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/06/solar-panels-fire-europe/
Leftist, “What do you mean it’s supposed to work after we build it? You’re a capitalist, land owning, robber baron, exploiting the workers”
The problem with socialists building things: they just don’t work!
Keep the windmills offline. It will save money in the long run.
I think the best windmill story is South Point on the Big Island of Hawaii. This is one of the windiest places on earth (there are trees growing completely bent over from the constant wind), but the dozens of windmills there are completely still. A monument to a bad idea.