Documents filed by Xcel Energy for it’s Nobles Wind facility, 134 turbines. The wind turbines lasted 12 years. Cost to decommission $85,533,609. Cost to refurbish $204,000,000. But wait, let me show you how this scam works.
Documents filed by Xcel Energy for it’s Nobles Wind facility, 134 turbines. The wind turbines lasted 12 years. Cost to decommission $85,533,609. Cost to refurbish $204,000,000. But wait, let me show you how this scam works.
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In the meantime?
Xcel Energy is also working with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to extend the operating licenses for their three nuclear power plants at Monticello and Prairie Island AGAIN. Their licenses were already extended once from forty years to sixty years. Now they are going to be extended another twenty years until the 2050’s.
Since those plants were built in the early 1970’s, they have been upgraded with new safety equipment, had their power output increased several times, and are now looking at 80 years of operation. That’s eight generations of windmills.
And the nuclear plants have power output capacities above 90%, no matter if the wind is blowing or not, and all night long too.
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Crossing fingers for fusion tech.
I would be interested to know how much power these wind turbines generated, subtracting the natural gas standby power that also had to be built (I assume).
Here is another aspect of the scam. Sask Power claims that 95% of a wind turbine can be recycled. Let’s tell them to insist that new wind installations are 95% made of recycled material.
In trying to sound green they obscure the fact that any material, other than metal, recycled at end of life is essentially worthless.
Walter, it’s doublespeak. The claim of recycling it all means nothing when it costs millions to tear down windmills and haul them away. We’ll never know for sure but it’s likely not gaining us anything, likely worse than we know.
It’s similar to digging a hole on Tuesday, hiring another crew to fill the hole on Wednesday, and then brag about the jobs you created! There’s much better places to invest our resources.
Depends who.they put in that hole. E.g. if we could sell tickets to Prime Minister Catreau’s funeral …