I see soldiers walking around as if they're going to the market. the sound of gunfire was probably added. just propaganda, I wouldn't want to be in a truck that close to the front if gunfire was that loud, unless I was going the other way.
I find it funny that he calls it ccp when the old name for ussr was cccp. I like to pay attention
Learn when you are being trolled. You may become less hysterical.
I'm not hysterical, I was laughing. thought it was funny. not much gets me upset specially posting in a bb. I only post on what is going to entertain me. what can I say, I have no life.
Poland just flew all their MiG-29s to Ramstein Airbase in Germany and handed them over to the USAF. Pretty sure Ukrainian pilots will come to pick them up shortly.
actually Poland is ready to send the planes to Germany. but they're basically trading up their planes.
it's a good move for Poland as they won't get parts for the planes. but trading them for American planes guarantees they will still have an airforce with plenty of parts.
Ok, my 2 cents. I used to have a home in Palm Springs that I used to frequently visit in between vacation rentals. So I know this area very well too as well as the wind turbines. I have never seen one like the picture but that doesn't mean they don't exist somewhere among the thousands. The wind turbines that most people probably see are probably on the I-10. They are positioned in different directions though. I have noticed that sometimes when the wind wasn't very strong, only the ones in the best position for the wind would be turning. Driving through there in high winds, nearly all would be turning. So it is always different every day that you drive through there.
My electric bill was through Edison Electric and it would show the percentage of electricity generated by the wind turbines. It was surprisingly high, I want to say 40-50%.
never lived there but now my gas bill went from 5 to 15 or 20 a month to 50. they say the average price went up 30% due to higher costs and that I do call bs. I pay more for gas than electricity. my electricity bill is around 30 all year long. small 2 bed aparment but it's been colder this year than I can remember, we had snow. well mostly snowish water crap. but it's been colder. then again wife who never in her life would let me turn on the heater because she was always hot, now she's cold. I wake up in the morning in the heat is ridiculous, i feel Like I am back to north carolina during the middle of the summer.
I think killing you could perhaps be a little extreme. Maybe he could just break some bones or something.
it was a joke. gina you ever stopped at georgie's in yucaipa on county line? if you like german sandwiches, only place around that I know of. lieberwurst is the best, if you like that. the deli is awesome, you can get whatever cuts you want to take hom. I am not into cakes but their german chocolate cake is to die for. all imported from germany, including german beer.
I'm sure the special ones you saw were the aluminum ones. All the others are composite.
I have no reason to disbelieve you.
hell they could have been made out of toilet paper mixed with glue around a balloon the shape of a blade covered in foil paper. I didnt examine them. they just looked like aluminum to me. kill me for it.
the liberal way... shit up an area and move on. hey what was the state with the most fleeing?
Louisiana, nebraska and west virginia were ahead of california in 2020. when I was living in north carolina back in the 90's in charlotte, the joke was why do people of west virginia move to north caroline? because that's how far they get on 1 tank of gas.
Thems ones was. These ones is different.
like I said i saw them on the freeway, they looked like made of aluminum to me as they had the reflection of aluminum. I didnt exactly jumped out of my truck to the rig transporting them to examine the inside.
It probably was California but there were 100's of non operating windmills. At the time there was no construction going on. Just deteriorating ones and new ones.
Yeah, sure they may have replaced them by now. But it's doubtful as the article stated, it's cheaper to leave them rot and and move on than tear them down.
like I said no abandoned wind farms in california. most likely what you saw and this is my best guess, is a couple of windmills needing repair and the rest not moving for several reasons, no wind, too much wind or they were not needed. I've seen the same thing. but my wife's family lives in palm springs we go there several times a year. by the way those windmills that have served their purpose are replaced or removed. palm springs is anal in a good way about that. they didnt want them in the first place, but now people are used to them. that's according to the link you posted. any windmill that outlives its purpose is replaced or removed. there used to be 4000, then 2000, now they think they could generate twice the electricity with 700, then again that is on the link you posted. no abandoned rusted windmills existed or have existed in palm springs. I only live 50 miles from there and have gone there since the 80's. now if you had said in the 90's, I could not really vouch for that as I was in the marines in 89, then moved to north caroline after leaving the marines and moved back in 98. but 6 or 7 years ago or the last 20 years, that is a misunderstanding on your part.
from 98 to 2008 I worked regularly in palm springs, after I got another job, me and my wife would travel there just about every month. all her family except for her mom lives there. I have not seen miles of rusted wind mills in the middle of the desert as you originally stated.
All I know is we got off the plane in Phoenix and drove to Palm Springs. They were along the route we took.
But hey, don't believe my lying eyes or the article I posted to back it up.
I read the article and it's several years old, it doesnt have a date but it does mention in one part "before the federal credit expires in 2019. and it talks about replacing old windmills with new ones which produce more electricity with less wind turbines. it also says companies "may" just create new farms instead of building on existing ones. but it talks about what may or may not happen. I have seen bigger towers next to smaller ones. and I have seen them taking smaller towers and having bigger ones installed. but the article is 2 or 3 years old and it only talks about palm springs. like I said there are no wind farms on highway 10 that have been built or abandoned between palm springs and phoenix, other than in palm springs. perhaps you saw some being dismantled but it's a far cry from miles and miles of abandoned wind turbines.
my wife's family they all live in palm springs. palm springs was a popular spring break town. I have been there more times than I can count, going back to the 80's also due to work i drove on highway 10 to the california border all thru the 2000 to about 2008. no abandoned farms there. and I have gone many times to phoenix, no abandoned wind farms on the way there. perhaps you thinking of palm springs as arizona has never had a wind farm along the 10.
They are actually carbon fiber/Balsa wood, maybe aluminum wrap on them at least the ones around here are. You can actually drive along and see the different generations of them. It was probably 7-8 years ago that I made the drive, I believe it was on I 10. And it wasn't close to either city it was out in the dessert in between. But there were thousands of windmills along the drive but there were hundreds in disrepair. Missing blades, rusted, what appeared to be oil running down the sides of the housings. All that were in that state appeared to be previous generations that had outlived their usefulness. Maybe they've removed and replaced most by now. It does seem foolish to leave them in "prime" wind spots taking up space. But as always, it's all about the dollars. Someone somewhere has a spreadsheet on the cost to remove vs. leaving it and moving on to a new location. Whichever is less that's what they go with. There's no thought of "saving the planet".
again I have not seen any windfarms in the middle of the desert, not along highway 10 or 40. 7 years ago my father died in new mexico. before then I had passed many times between phoenix and los angeles. on the way back we stopped in phoenix and it was hotter than hell, we found this pub that had great sandwiches and ice cold beer. we made it a point to go there every year, last time I was there was 3 years ago. no windfarms in the middle of the desert. not along highway 10, on highway 40 i believe there's 1 on kingsman or nearby. that one I have seen as we often go to laughlin or used to. but there are no wind farms working or abandoned between palm springs and phoenix, not along highway 10.
Every time I drive by those windmills in palm springs, I'd say at least 25 percent of them are not spinning. There's a shitload of them though. Pretty incredible site.
They've been there for as long as I remember. At least early 1980s.
this I have seen. but they're could be many reasons other than them being broken. last time I was in palm springs was xmas. it was rare to not see one spinning.
I kind of doubt the whole story of redwing7 about seeing miles of rotting blades from phoenix to palm spring. phoenix doesnt have any wind turbines, not enough wind there. there are 5 farms but not anywhere near phoenix, and I have yet to see one rotting in palm springs. the rest of the story doesnt make sense either.
Like LS said the blades are composite made in South America. When they were pitched to the "thumb" here in Michigan they were told they're electric bill would be dramatically decreased. And that there would be many jobs created from the project. In reality neither happened. Those things are subsidized so fucking heavily the companies don't even care about cost savings. I got hooked up with and engineer when the first started putting them up. For the heating/cooling systems the were literally going online to McMaster Car and buying lengths of copper tubing and a bunch of 90 degree connections. They would hand solder it all together (like the coolant tubes on the back of a refrigerator). I told them I could make it one piece for probably 1/4 of their current cost to do it. He was excited about it but when he took it to purchasing they had no interest.
Also they were paying so much for the lease of the properties to erect the turbines on farmers were actually retiring and giving the operations to their kids.
I asked one, who's responsible for the structure when the turbine's life was over? Because I've seen the miles of rotting turbines stretched from Phoenix to Palm Springs. He didn't know so he reread his contract and got back with me. He said the company was responsible to remove the blades and the nacelle (turbine and housing) but not the tower it sits on. I said wow, so you either have to put an aviation warning lights on it and maintain it or pay potentially 100's of thousands of dollars for someone to bring in a crew and take each one down. He was dumbfounded.
I can only speak on what I have seen. the blades are one piece here, seen a few that's how I know they're aluminum. see the big trucks carrying them on the freeway. I live near palm springs, farms of them I have yet to see one being abandoned. they provide our used to provide 1/2 the electricity. I first saw them back in the 80s. they still working plus they have added more. they do fail but are quickly fixed. not sure how you have seen them abandoned in palm springs. have not seen any in Phoenix, then again I have only gone there perhaps 10 or 15 times. perhaps they're on an area that I didn't pass thru.
it's a joke because I lived in Los Angeles then moved to north Carolina, so think a person with an accent and southern accent on top of that. Pigs stared the rumor that I was either Canadian or Jamaican. with a slight southern accent. so I just kept the joke going. in high school people right I was oriental at first. which I found hilarious, I'm part german, part spanish and part raramuri.
What are your other languages? Where are you from?
I'm Canadian Jamaican. us citizen by birth.
Display MoreDementia Joe and his cohorts telling us that high gas prices are just the pain we must suffer to transition to green energy. They are determined to make that happen.
Of course, as usual they are blind to reality:
An observation from a Swedish engineer:
“The notion that a nation can run on sunshine and breezes is worse than delusional.
People might fall for the idea that we can merrily run on sunshine and breezes alone with a few trillion dollars worth of mythical mega-batteries providing backup for a few minutes, when the sun sets and the wind stops blowing.
A two-megawatt w!ndmill is made up of 260 tons of steel that required 300 tons or iron ore and 170 tons of coking coal, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons.
A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.”
used to work at a steel mill, we used gas an oxygen. gas was bought way in advance at a cheaper rate. as for a wind turbine, the ones around here are made of aluminum. can't speak for how they're made everywhere but I don't think they use steel for the blades, maybe the support is my assumption. but I do know they produce electricity to make it worth their price.
actually what he signed was only for those below 350% poverty line. and the paperwork required was not cheap and they could also charge for it. truth is insulin is cheap to make what makes it expensive is drug companies charging for the delivery method whatever that means. it's a cash cow for them. just like epi pens, used to carry one before, they were cheap. now they're expensive as hell, so I don't.
