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- inactive, on 02/04/2008, -1/+335000 EUROPEAN homes, about 3 american homes.
- burkinaboy, on 02/04/2008, -2/+32Wow! I'll take two, please.
- brstilson, on 02/04/2008, -0/+27"These things also kill a LOT of birds,"
False
"make funny noises,"
False
"and are UGLY."
Coal power plants are beautiful?
"Do they give back more electricity than they take to make?"
yes
You're reading propaganda from the coal/oil industry. - hdar3415, on 02/04/2008, -0/+25That is one big ass turbine. Amazing that humans can even build something like that.
- inactive, on 02/04/2008, -0/+18its an urban myth put out by oil companies. smog and pollution kills far more birds.
- GiJoeBob, on 02/04/2008, -0/+17Don Quixote is going to need a bigger horse.
- Robitz, on 02/04/2008, -3/+19Why are there 2 front page stories on the exact same thing?
- petermoffat, on 02/04/2008, -0/+14*Wind* Turbine. This thing is 7MW, the worlds largest units are 700MW+. Though they are at fossil stations..
- dattaway, on 02/04/2008, -0/+13Because we can never have enough wind power. Digg it.
- topace3000, on 02/04/2008, -2/+14Nuclear power is still more efficient and ironically even more environmentally friendly. Just sayin'.
- WoollyMittens, on 02/04/2008, -1/+12Maybe you should go and take a 5 mpg drive in your SUV to calm down. :)
- sroop, on 02/04/2008, -0/+10Humans have built some amazing things lately..
- polarbobbear, on 02/04/2008, -0/+9As an American living in Germany, I've got to be honest I am very impressed by the number of wind farms in this country. Every few miles driving down the autobahn you'll see another dozen or so of them. They're everywhere.
- optoomistic, on 02/04/2008, -0/+9Quality invention,
every city should purchase 100!
They are not an eyesore, it could be the best addition to a city skylines since the pyramids were built!! - xtmno3, on 02/04/2008, -0/+8Why? The other one is 5 hrs older. I would say nobody likes a 'Top User' brown-noser.
- Ezzilo, on 02/04/2008, -0/+8Stupid birds fly into the windturbines and the smart ones fly around and reproduce.Its called Evolution.
- niczar, on 02/04/2008, -0/+7"Do they give back more electricity than they take to make?"
You're kidding, right? What do you think, that turbine builders don't pay for their electricity or oil they use?
Besides, a turbine has a lifetime of ~ 30 years. 7 MW over 30 years ... that's a ***** of energy. No way it takes that much energy to build one. It's probably on the order of a few days or weeks of spinning at most. - bigern75, on 02/04/2008, -1/+8come on USA politics, wake the ***** up and get with the program. This is the future along with solar power and many others.
I love the USA but I hate the politics that have separated this country. - neio, on 02/04/2008, -0/+6Welcome back from your coma, I'm sure you'll discover lots of amazing things built by people in the future.
- Strawgate, on 02/04/2008, -0/+6It takes roughly 13 kw-h to produce 1 kilowatt of aluminum. Just the fact that they have a payback time means they produce more electricity then the aluminum needed consumes, because someone had to pay for the electricity to begin with. Every single day, the amount of electricity outputted by one turbine. Each turbine produces roughly 7000 kilowatts per hour. That is 546 kilograms per hour... 13,000 per day, 4790625 per year.
- kjcdude, on 02/04/2008, -0/+6One was submitted by msaleem which has a 33% success ratio (he was one of the whores who went on strike), the original poster was tomjenkinson, who actually found the story and has a 6% success ratio.
- mrynit, on 02/04/2008, -0/+6this makes bush mad
- EricAnderton, on 02/04/2008, -0/+6"[...] and are UGLY."
You've obviously never seen what they do nowadays to mine coal. I'll take a hundred of these over any strip-mine anyday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal - lordshank, on 02/04/2008, -0/+5Now just combine this idea with a ferris wheel, and we got a gold mine baby!
- Ezzilo, on 02/04/2008, -1/+5Humans? Germans!
- torontoliam, on 02/04/2008, -0/+4Exactly what I wanted to say! I guess it's kind of good that the general public has associated the word "turbine" with wind though.
- 0crabby0, on 02/04/2008, -0/+4That's because apartments are counted as German homes, and not stand alone structures.
- hitokiri808, on 02/04/2008, -0/+4How exactly does a 126 meter blade kill tiny little birds? I'm sure the prop doesn't move very fast...
- inactive, on 02/04/2008, -0/+4maglev is just a investment scam.
- Rich7ejr, on 02/04/2008, -0/+4That is one big ass-turbine. Amazing that humans can even build something like that.
http://www.xkcd.com/37/ - hansolo, on 02/04/2008, -1/+5Too bad the so called environmentalists here in Vermont won't support wind turbines on ridge-lines..
they prefer to preserve the 'scenery' without thinking of the long term needs of the state. - Jektal, on 02/04/2008, -1/+5The LEFT is suppressing alternative energy sources?
- indorock, on 02/04/2008, -1/+5so what's the deal with the enormous differnce in the amount of European homes vs American homes it would power? Are you telling me that US households use twice as much electricity?? Insane...
- Gazoo2001, on 02/05/2008, -0/+3Yeah, nat's been drinking the fossi-fuel spiked Kool-Aid...
Bird kills from wind turbines are non-zero, but are far less than from cars, homes, other buildings, power line towers, and so on. You can even read about it yourself!
http://web.syr.edu/~bpburtt/Birds/Aug08-04.htm - bamafun, on 02/04/2008, -0/+3impressive !
- SoulDesigner, on 02/04/2008, -0/+3monorail monorail
- Gazoo2001, on 02/05/2008, -0/+3Once again...
http://web.syr.edu/~bpburtt/Birds/Aug08-04.htm
Number of birds killed by wind turbines is insignificant compared to the number killed by collisions with cars, buildings, various towers, etc, and from housecats. Quoting from the link:
"Summary of bird loss due to collisions
The figures here are the estimates of the number of birds killed per year by colliding with each of the various human structures discussed above.
400,000,000 by collisions with buildings and windows
85,000,000 by collisions with power lines.
70,000,000 by collisions with vehicles
20,000,000 by collisions with TV and radio towers
45,000 by collisions with the 15,000 wind turbines
If we eventually had a million turbines, they would account for only 1.5% of all the casualties that birds now undergo to live with we humans.
Just for comparison, the Audubon Society estimates that about 100,000,00 birds are killed by house cats each year." - Gazoo2001, on 02/05/2008, -0/+3Kerry and Kennedy aren't suppressing ALL alternative energy...just the stuff that will be visible from their Cape Cod summer homes (the Cape Wind project)! Classic NIMBY (not in my back yard). Shameful.
- londubh, on 02/04/2008, -0/+3I hope they'll build more of these.
- INDOAZZ, on 02/04/2008, -4/+7What an ICON for sustainability!
- CedEx, on 02/04/2008, -0/+2Not so much the left as the "privileged left". Rich people are all the same, regardless of political leanings. Only out to look after themselves and their ilk.
- hansolo, on 02/04/2008, -0/+2There are plenty of places to put it up and will not ruin the scenery.
What's the alternative? Depend on an aging nuclear plant and the looming expiration of hydro contracts with HydroQuebec that will drive up the costs. - Gazoo2001, on 02/05/2008, -0/+2No, it's the fossil-fuel lovin' business-as-usual folks who will suddenly grow an environmental sensibility and want to "protect the birds," as long as it means wind turbines don't get built. Even though, of course, wind turbine bird kills are insignificant compared to other sources of bird deaths (car, building collisions; housecats; etc.)
A source: http://web.syr.edu/~bpburtt/Birds/Aug08-04.htm - 0crabby0, on 02/04/2008, -0/+2Politics has very little to do with it. If your area doesn't have enough wind(Interior Southeast US) - No generator will be located there.
- thallium205, on 02/05/2008, -0/+2Sure, I live in Nevada. They can put them all next to Yucca Mountain. Sounds fine to me, I'm sure the US would pay big bucks to have them in my state.
- nydwarf, on 02/05/2008, -0/+2It sliced, it dices, it powers a small town! This must have been made by Ronco right?
- inactive, on 02/04/2008, -0/+2Exactly the same as American ones.
In case you haven't read they have been even for a few months. - cyberdork, on 02/04/2008, -0/+2Give me a break. We are talking about Germany.. it's the size of Montana. If the wind blows hard we already call it a storm of the century over here.
And you think the US has less wind resources than Germany? - NJank, on 02/04/2008, -0/+2But the scenery... my beautiful scenery...
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