The Glaring Engineering Mistake That Made Wind Turbines Inefficient | Massive Engineering Mistakes
Feb 20, 2021 18:59:40 #
Feb 20, 2021 19:42:37 #
Seems like the company that comes up with refurbishing technology will make a lot of money and keep a lot of technicians busy. Perhaps a super epoxy and a surfacing machine that can profile the intended edge exactly. Given the state of no recycling options something needs to be done to reuse blades.
Feb 20, 2021 20:42:47 #
woodguru wrote:
Seems like the company that comes up with refurbishing technology will make a lot of money and keep a lot of technicians busy. Perhaps a super epoxy and a surfacing machine that can profile the intended edge exactly. Given the state of no recycling options something needs to be done to reuse blades.
Airplane wings are made of aluminum. They get lots of buffeting from all kinds of stuff. How long do they last?
Airplane wings ice up too. Can't very well have de-icing crews keeping wind turbines ice free in blizzards.
Then there's the problem of energy density.
Feb 20, 2021 22:25:56 #
lpnmajor
Loc: Arkansas
BigMike wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og2H7ZxkiMA
They went too large. Why do Americans think larger us better? 20 small Aircraft Carriers are better than 2 super carriers.......................they're much smaller targets and require far more enemy munitions.
Feb 21, 2021 05:49:39 #
Throwing big taxpayer bucks down a black hole! The rush to lead the world in wind energy has serious consequences. Soon, many will discover, the wind energy life cycle cost analysis based on a virtually maintenance free wind turbine which was wrong but used to justify their application in our power grid will have to be scrapped and we will have to replace them with f****l f**l powered generation.
Nothing more than a great wind experiment gone wrong costing the American taxpayer dearly!
Nothing more than a great wind experiment gone wrong costing the American taxpayer dearly!
Feb 21, 2021 12:26:01 #
lpnmajor wrote:
They went too large. Why do Americans think larger us better? 20 small Aircraft Carriers are better than 2 super carriers.......................they're much smaller targets and require far more enemy munitions.
Good point. Turbines would sure be a heck of a lot easier and cheaper to maintain if they weren't so damn big but fix that and they still can't come close to matching the energy density of f****l f**ls.
Windmills are great for storing kinetic energy...like pumping water into a cistern.
Other than that backyard whirlybirds adding to the grid is OK...same with rooftop solar panels.
Immense, g***n e****y projects are a frelling s**m and until the tech catches up with some folks' ambitions the people with those ambitions need to fund them privately.
Feb 21, 2021 12:28:07 #
tbutkovich wrote:
Throwing big taxpayer bucks down a black hole! Th... (show quote)
Exactly right..."based on maintenance free wind turbines". BANG!
That's the s**m.
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