Wind Generation

[SandburRanch]

Has anyone ever seen evidence of a buried cable from any of the large wind generators in your area or a power sub-station to distribute electric power? I've driven by thousands and have never seen any evidence electric power is being distributed anywhere. Rather strange I'd say.

 

[Industrial Toys]

It's a conspiracy. Just to make the friends of the politicians rich in the sale and installation of these things.

I actually watched and talked to some electricians wiring in the HV underground services for these turbines. Quite interesting.

The underground plant usually connects to overhead wires at some point and then to transformer stations.

 

[Gary3032]

Toured a wind farm in Kansas, pretty neat. I threw them for a loop when I asked them what would happen when we run out of foreign wind! lol

Gary

 

[Loren49]

Most wiring is underground in the 195 tower windfarm near my house. There is some overead wiring and from substation to transmission it's overhead. Much is underground so it doesn't interfere with land use...and looks better.

 

[Travelover]

They are wireless, so the farmers can move them around, the same way you'd rotate crops.

 

[JimRB]

Tis true. They use Nikola Tesla's wireless power transfer so they can move the towers around. Some interesting reading about the heated discussion about electricty over a century ago.
Wireless power transfer - Wikipedia
http://www.teslasociety.com/tesla_tower.htm
War of Currents - Wikipedia

 

[EddieWalker]

Even more interesting is trying to find a single power plant that has be replaced by wind power? All those billions of tax payer money spent for green energy, and you have to keep the power plants running 24/7 because the windmills are so unreliable, and difficult to keep working.

Another thing that would be fun is trying to find a windmill farm that exists without government funding to keep it going.

And the easiest is to count all the windmills that are in disrepair and falling apart because the government funding ended and it costs more to maintain them then they generate in revenue.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

It's one thing to encourage, even provide tax write offs for private R&D; it's another to subsidize, for political purposes, an industry that clearly has no competitive edge and that seems to be what we are doing. I see it maybe working in some areas like Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands that have no petroleum and natural gas, and where the cost of electricity is out of sight because their fuel is imported primarily from Venezuela.

 

[jerrybob]

I just wanna know what they do with all the airplanes those propellers come off of ?????

 

[Rocky J]

This video is what it looks like from my backyard. The only good part is no one can build a house around them in case they come apart so things should never change . You can drive a hour to the east or to the west and still be in the Wind Farm. The neat part is seeing 3000 of the red lights on top go off and on at the same time all night. The annoying part is the shadows when the sun shines through them in the morning on the road. Up Close Windmill - YouTube

 

[dickfoster]

Even more interesting is trying to find a single power plant that has be replaced by wind power? All those billions of tax payer money spent for green energy, and you have to keep the power plants running 24/7 because the windmills are so unreliable, and difficult to keep working.

Another thing that would be fun is trying to find a windmill farm that exists without government funding to keep it going.

And the easiest is to count all the windmills that are in disrepair and falling apart because the government funding ended and it costs more to maintain them then they generate in revenue.

Yeah ask Denmark all about it. They spent a lot of money on wind power and will never ever recover their investment. Wind and solar is just something to keep the looney left occupied and distracted while real solutions are never talked about. That is until all the oil, coal and gas is gone, then there'll be plenty of talk.

 

[RNeumann]

I had the chance to visit Australia where these have also become popular. Problem is they installed a few North American models that were actually REMOVING power from the grid. They said the wind south of the equator causes the turbines to spin in the opposite direction. Once they installed the left hand brushes the problems stopped.

 

[vvanders]

I had the chance to visit Australia where these have also become popular. Problem is they installed a few North American models that were actually REMOVING power from the grid. They said the wind south of the equator causes the turbines to spin in the opposite direction. Once they installed the left hand brushes the problems stopped.

How does that even work? You don't see airplanes flip their blades when they get blow the equator .

UK has a pretty big wind investment(Wind power in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia) of around 11-17%. Just recently they generated more electricity from wind instead of coal.

 

[MossRoad]

How does that even work? You don't see airplanes flip their blades when they get blow the equator .

They don't have to... they're upside down.

 

[Travelover]

They don't have to... they're upside down.

Duh, obviously!

 

[Spindifferent]

Wind power in Texas - Wikipedia

http://gov.texas.gov/files/ecodev/Renewable_Energy.pdf

Texas wind power blows away old record - Houston Chronicle

 

[jerrybob]

A solar panel is talking to a wind turbine..........The solar panel says, "So what do you think about this whole renewable energy thing?" The turbine replies, "I'm a big fan."

 

[RNeumann]

A solar panel is talking to a wind turbine..........The solar panel says, "So what do you think about this whole renewable energy thing?" The turbine replies, "I'm a big fan."

The PANEL would agree- that was TURBINable!

 

[SandburRanch]

It's been 2 years and my question has not been answered so i'll ask again in a slightly different context .

Has anyone ever seen a cable being buried from a commercial windmill to a point that electricity can be distributed ?

 

[workinonit]

Even more interesting is trying to find a single power plant that has be replaced by wind power? All those billions of tax payer money spent for green energy, and you have to keep the power plants running 24/7 because the windmills are so unreliable, and difficult to keep working.

Another thing that would be fun is trying to find a windmill farm that exists without government funding to keep it going.

And the easiest is to count all the windmills that are in disrepair and falling apart because the government funding ended and it costs more to maintain them then they generate in revenue.

Actually, coal fired and nuclear plants are closing at a breakneck pace. And in the next 10 years it will be crazy the number of plants that will close. It's actually disturbing because coal and nuclear is being replaced by gas sites, gas turbines and combined cycle plants, but there's no way they can be built fast enough to replace what's being closed down. Now it would be a stretch to say any of these plants are being replaced by wind and solar but that's the politcal narrative.