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

  1. Looks like all the cheap taxpayers didn’t pay … their fair share … so our shiny new wind turbines could stand up straight. SHAME on you taxpayers ! You need to PAY a carbon tax for your SINS ! You’re “hurting” our clean, green, FREE power by withholding taxes. Alright … its FULL “lifestyle” IRS audits for the lot of you !

  2. Huh? I didn’t see any lean and I didn’t see any ropes. He needs a better video.

  4. This quote from the article sums up how the Ontario ‘wind rush’ is falling on it’s nose:
    “The Past President of the Huron-Perth Landowners’ Association is advising area farmers to do their research and get legal advice before signing wind turbine development leases for their properties. Dave Hemingway is concerned property owners may be left on the hook for millions of dollars of wind turbine construction work that hasn’t been paid for. Hemingway says turbine construction contractors have applied liens against six properties — four of them since June.
    Some people will end up losing their whole farm because they leased out a plot for a wind turbine.

  5. I see the ropes, look about one third of the way up..
    They say its safe.
    Until it falls and kills someone..

  6. Where can I get a Canadian rope that will hold a hundred tons ?
    I could use it to pull a large oak tree out of my yard..

  8. Besides adding stability,they serve as recoil ropes to start the gas engines when the electric start is on the fritz.

  9. No surprise here, this has happened before in Ont. In 2014 6 or more towers at Bornish wind plant were rushed up in late winter and shifted dramatically in the spring.
    I cannot find an update on their status, as main media doesn’t concentrate too much on Big Wind failures.
    This highlights the carelessness of the Wynne government slapping these things up as quickly as possible to get a critical number completed before she is turfed. It is inconceivable a 30 story office tower in Etobicoke (Toronto) would be built so it shifted on completion. Simply digging a hole in a corn field and filling it with 800 tonnes of concrete and 40 t. of rebar is obviously not enough to support the tower,or maybe the construction company skimped on the amount. Whatever the case, the province is wholly negligent in inspecting the construction of these towers. How many others have been poorly built? The towers are all relatively new, what will they look like in 20 years?
    Just another example of Wynne’s cynical disregard for rural Ont.

  10. The new wind towers are made of concrete. They are much heavier than those old ones. Because there is such a rush to install them a lot of times the cement isn’t curing properly and they are being assembled with soft cement.
    To give you an idea on the weights involved, it used to take 3 trucks to move a tower to site(not counting blades), it now takes approximately 27 trucks.

  11. The reason these huge windmills are falling over is because the Canadian Permafrost is starting to melt..
    It must be Global Warming, Climate Change, Obama Catastrophic Climate Change..
    –
    Canadians need a Carbon Tax..

  12. Hemp Rope- 100 metric ton strength.
    Use it for extreme pull and hard work,
    then relax around a warm smoking fire..

  14. Right, if they are concrete shouldn’t the ground be excavated to bedrock? Who exactly is inspecting these towers, or signing the building permits? Remember all local authority has been removed under the GEA and all decisions centralized at QP.
    If this were a few gallons of oil spilled from the oil sands, or a duck accidentally killed, CBC and the Toronto media would be breathless in their coverage. Instead negligence of this magnitude by Wind outfits is not worthy of mention. A tower this height tethered by ropes, and posing no danger? What universe to these people inhabit?

  15. There’s basically zero leverage a third of the way up to hold that thing.
    That rope / cable should be at least two thirds of the way up minimum.
    “Sorry boss longest rope we got”
    Gubment

  16. Wind energy just another rediculou idea from the granola munchers and other assorted green nutcases windturbines are harmful to birds and bats their terribly noisey and the ruin the landscape

  18. the advantage of “rope”, or straps as I use, and even wire rope, is that when on fullpull and a sudden load shift, they have give and tend not to snap as chains and cheap cable will. I’v had 3 chains fail when moving machinery. You tell some idiot that chains are not the proper thing to use, but they are “certified” millwrights and know better, until failure:-)))

  19. “…and along with Capstone staff and consulting engineers, were working to determine the cause of the lean.” Wiarton Echo. 
    I live a long way from Wiarton and I can tell them the cause right now: gravity.

  21. That video is literally like the images I find in the windmills of my mind. Have I got Bad Movie Song Syndrome?

  23. So it falls over. No member of the public will be in harms way. That was one of Ezra’s worst video clips.

  24. “I can’t see what the tower is tethered to.”
    Um, tent pegs, I think. (not that it would make a difference since the thing weighs 100 tons)

  25. I suggest that the ropes are guy ropes, to simply add stability. They counter the weight of the operating nacelle.

  26. “So it falls over. No member of the public will be in harms way.”
    You hope. Going to be hard for the farmer to put his crop in, with that thing threatening to come down on him.
    By the way, this is one of the -small- wind towers. Check out the ones in Haldimand County some time, they’re double or more the size of that little thing. Around here the blades alone are nearly 200 ft long.
    As to durability, I predict a large scrap opportunity around 10-15 years from now, when all the main bearings in these things go. A couple of bearing failures, a couple of driveshafts snap and the blades go sailing off, possibly for -miles- because it’s an airplane wing and it can fly if not attached to the tower, there’s going to be a bunch of farmers really excited by the idea of getting them off their land.

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