Who knows...
If it were 1820 where would you put your money?
Should you build more canals or build more tracks
for those unreliable steampowered pulling machines?
harry
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From: R C Macaulay <[email protected]> Date: Monday, January 5, 2009 8:11 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:The PickensPlan website > Howdy Horace,>
> All the math in the world cannot reconcile adapting blade type
> windmills to
> electric generators. for fun or profit. Siemens et al controls
> much of the
> manufacturing of these monsters. The US gov't subsidizes them with
> tax
> offset credits and the electric power wholesalers sell the green
> power at
> plus rates with the come on that green is in and everybody should
> help.At any one time as many as 1/3 of the mills are down for
> maintenance. The
> cost of repairs including crane rental fees to remove a generator
> or blade
> 100 plus feet above ground gets sorta costly. Has anyone done an
> analysis on
> cost- subsidy vs power sales?
> Blade fatigue do to pylon harmonics take the fun out of investing
> in these
> "mills" regardless of the hype about green.
> Richard
>
>
