acem Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 The Chinese have developed a huge wind turbine with 387ft blades! That's a circle of 1/8 mile! Apparently the larger the turbines are more efficient than smaller ones. Thx-Ace https://newatlas.com/energy/worlds-biggest-wind-turbine-mingyang/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Doctor Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 I'll bet it is very impressive when they destroy themselves. The Fire Department just sits and puts out the fires under it when it burns. Maybe they will put a few of these off the Kennedy Compound. Just for eye appeal. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirt_Floor_Poor Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 I don’t care what it costs. Just charge it to the federal government. I want one right in my backyard so I can watch it shred up the bald eagles. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DT Fan Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 If they made the bearings themselves, stupid thing will be down for maintenance more than it will ever work! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nomorejohndeere Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 They should double duty those things into high rise condos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaredT Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 20 hours ago, jass1660 said: Maybe we should ban windows, they are killing too many birds.🙄 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirt_Floor_Poor Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 1 hour ago, JaredT said: Maybe we should ban windows, they are killing too many birds.🙄 Sounds like a good idea. Of course we’ll need to exempt the government from this requirement. I wonder if a farmer had this chart and showed it to some government official the next time he mowed over some endangered (insert animal) it would be ok wouldn’t it? Look, farmers didn’t even make the list so I’m in the clear right? Try bulldozing a tree with a bald eagle nest in it and pulling out that chart, see if the government will accept that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBootsMI Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 On 8/24/2021 at 8:33 AM, Dirt_Floor_Poor said: I don’t care what it costs. Just charge it to the federal government. I want one right in my backyard so I can watch it shred up the bald eagles. Maybe not funny, but funny you say that. My brother works on the turbines, and within a week or 2 of them coming on line, he told me he wasn't allowed to tell me what kind of bird it was, but that it was a huge brown bird with a white head that got wiped out by a turbine blade. Their policy is that they have to report it, and where it was and all, to the appropriate agency, whoever that is. They had to pay, I think he said, a $15,000 or $20,000 fine. I hit more birds with my truck in a year than those things with kill in their lifetime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jingles1928 Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 10 hours ago, RBootsMI said: I hit more birds with my truck in a year than those things with kill in their lifetime Not to hijack but this reminded me. Back in the eighties I had a red '83 dodge pickup. You would have thought that it was a aircraft carrier and birds were kamikaze pilots. That truck killed a lot of birds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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