For sale: wind turbine in Pine TWP.

**map351** · 01-20-2011, 08:16 AM

More tax dollars down the shitter! Drill a gas well you MORONS!

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11020...localstate.xml

**Black Vert** · 01-20-2011, 09:46 AM

I go by there everyday, only seen it turning once or twice. Lack of wind haha, even on windy days it was never turning. What a waste.

**phillysrt4** · 01-20-2011, 06:44 PM

I'll bet 10 internets that they never did a proper wind survey to see the feasibility/profitability of the site. they just saw grant money and went ahead of with everything.

There's a wind turbine array I've seen when I would travel from Pitt to Philly on the TP and I've seen it turning often. There's a time and a place for wind but if you dont survey and do your due diligence then yeah, you might as well go natural gas or another reliable clean resource.

**Martin0660** · 01-20-2011, 09:19 PM

Philly - if you go out there now, that wind farm has been extended from the turnpike all the way across that ridge to route 30 and further out toward rt 31 (but not that far). The locals fought the heck out of it, but they are making Power.

Unrelated (sort of), when we was building and starting up our plant in China, there was a pile of Dutch guys doing the same thing. We was the first two in that economic region. Anyway, there company was Vestas and set up to build wind turbines in 2006 they start with 300 employes, last august I was back and they had 3,500 they are putting them offshore as fast as they can be built.

**Ares** · 01-25-2011, 07:16 PM

Thats like 5 minutes from work and I have never ever seen that thing working even on a windy day. They may want to I dunno, unlock the brakes and let it work for once.

**phillysrt4** · 01-28-2011, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by Martin0660

Philly - if you go out there now, that wind farm has been extended from the turnpike all the way across that ridge to route 30 and further out toward rt 31 (but not that far). The locals fought the heck out of it, but they are making Power.

Unrelated (sort of), when we was building and starting up our plant in China, there was a pile of Dutch guys doing the same thing. We was the first two in that economic region. Anyway, there company was Vestas and set up to build wind turbines in 2006 they start with 300 employes, last august I was back and they had 3,500 they are putting them offshore as fast as they can be built.

That's something I cant figure out... so many people want clean renewable power as long as its "not in my backyard". If it meant my power rates would stay stable or even go down and i had the benefit of clean power I wouldn't care about living near a windfarm. I'd rather have that than some other forms of power generation in my backyard.

Offshore is a really good way to go. No trees to obstruct the wind and you get more predictable wind patterns. On another (somewhat unrelated) front, there is an active project to take advantage of the tide power that comes up the Bay of Fundy. As you probably know the tide change is the highest in the world at over 9m, meaning there is a tremendous amount of untapped energy that will soon be utilized.

**thedak** · 01-25-2011, 07:41 PM

Anyone ever drive through the windfarm out by Indy on I-65.

Pretty amazing seeing hundred of those things together.

**map351** · 01-29-2011, 09:14 AM

Wind Energy's Ghosts!
This is what the wind huggers don't want the taxpayer to see! Every state should have 2 Nuke plants end of power consumption problem..

"If wind power made sense, why would it need a government subsidy in the first place? It's a bubble which bursts as soon as the government subsidies end."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/..._ghosts_1.html