(02-28-2023, 11:21 AM)NewJagsCity Wrote: A little WD-40 applied to those noisy turbines should do the trick. Or we could issue ear plugs to the right whales.

Seriously, I'm not sure how these things work, but one alternative might have been to make them mobile. They could anchor on huge platforms which themselves could be anchored and then moved around as needed. It might lower the height just a bit to reduce or eliminate the toppling effect, but it would also allow them to get out of the way of hurricanes and further away from shipping lanes. They could also move closer to whatever coastal power system is purchasing their bulk power, tie into that system, and save potential transmission charges and losses. Of course, the various tie-ins would have to be developed as well. Kind of like the proposed floating nuclear power plants in the mid-80's.

Just have it float in the air with some helium, get it into the jet stream.

If anyone was truthful about wind farms, they would tell the truth of all the harm they do to the environment. They kill birds, they heat the ground or water, killing whales now. They don't produce enough energy to justify the cost.

Then you get into all the destruction of the environment to just install the turbine. The environmentalists should be going crazy over the offshore farms. They have to drill into the seabed to bury the platform hundreds of feet. Drilling for oil is terrible but drilling for wind farms is great.

Also saw some meme about all the old blades not being recyclable but no clue if that's true or not.

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