Your Green Energy
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09/20/19 10:07 AM
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This was a wind turbine on fire near Abilene, TX. a couple of weeks ago. Burned about 300 acres or so of pasture land. A man from Odonnel, TX up near Lubbock showed me a picture of 5 of them on fire at one time. Said was caused by lightning strikes. Lots of wind farms going in about 60 miles North of me and the Forest Service has moved in a fire crew with equipment into Brady, TX. and one of them told me last week it was because of the wind turbines. 13 miles North of me there is currently a 400 acre solar operation being built. I would rather have the solars instead of the windmills. It appears there's lots of oil in the turbines.
Sit on your horse on top of a ridge, look out across the country and tell me there is no God.
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Re: Your Green Energy
[Re: bfflobo]
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09/20/19 12:47 PM
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As I understand things, the turbines cost more to build, install and maintain than they ever will produce in electricity. Government subsidized. Not to mention, the huge carbon footprint they leave behind from manufacture/construction.
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Re: Your Green Energy
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Three Mile Island nuclear plant is closing today.
Can't sell their power, I guess gas is producing it cheaper.
1 unit will take 60 years to totally shut down at a cost of 1.5 billion, while the other is expected to be down in 2059.
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Re: Your Green Energy
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09/20/19 07:09 PM
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I have never believed in windmills. All of the power generated by them out here goes to the Coastal area and mainly Houston. If they need power down there let them build the wind farms in the ocean. If we can drill an oil well in 5000 ft. of water, shouldn't be a problem putting up a windmill. They wouldn't ruin the country and have power lines running in every which direction across the country side.
Several years ago I was in a county court meeting where developers were asking for a 10 year tax rebate of $0 and then taxed at their current market value on a proposed wind farm. When asked about ownership of the company it was 50% Chinese Co.(China Government) and 50% United Steel Workers of America. They were denied the rebate and they said they would build it in another county and the County Judge offered to drive them to the next county.
So USWOA went to the bottom of all lists I keep. When times get hard, they can eat crap with the chickens as far as I am concerned.
Sit on your horse on top of a ridge, look out across the country and tell me there is no God.
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Re: Your Green Energy
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09/20/19 07:19 PM
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Three Mile Island nuclear plant is closing today.
Can't sell their power, I guess gas is producing it cheaper.
1 unit will take 60 years to totally shut down at a cost of 1.5 billion, while the other is expected to be down in 2059. Yep, as of noon today, TMI stopped making electric.
Eh...wot?
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Re: Your Green Energy
[Re: Lugnut]
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09/20/19 07:36 PM
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Well natural gas has certainly been cheap this year. The average price so far at the Waha Hub in West Texas is 65 cents per MMBTU. For two months this year there was a negative price. If you put any gas in their line they charged you 6 dollars per MMBTU to take it to the flare.
Sit on your horse on top of a ridge, look out across the country and tell me there is no God.
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Re: Your Green Energy
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09/20/19 08:08 PM
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Three Mile Island nuclear plant is closing today.
Can't sell their power, I guess gas is producing it cheaper.
1 unit will take 60 years to totally shut down at a cost of 1.5 billion, while the other is expected to be down in 2059. Didn't the one in Japan shut down a lot quicker in 2011. I guess all is well since its never on the news.
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Re: Your Green Energy
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09/20/19 08:36 PM
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I oppose nuclear power generation as well. It has went like heck.
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Re: Your Green Energy
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09/20/19 08:44 PM
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I do not expect the Left to shift to nuclear power. They don't truly believe in climate change/global warming. It is a disingenuous ploy to garner votes from a specific segment of the population. That specific segment of the voting population is ignorant and unbending, therefore unable to reverse their hatred of "evil" nuclear power.
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Re: Your Green Energy
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Evil nuclear power is spewing into the pacific ocean at the daiichi plant in japan everyday. That mess was built by general electric, so japs could cook their rice without having to gather wood.
Get a grip man, lets burn coal.
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Re: Your Green Energy
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09/20/19 10:54 PM
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Evil nuclear power is spewing into the pacific ocean at the daiichi plant in japan everyday. That mess was built by general electric, so japs could cook their rice without having to gather wood.
Get a grip man, lets burn coal. Yup, Put people back to work digging coal. We know how to burn it clean. Scrub the smoke stacks of sulfur and put it on our fields for fertilizer and grow food. All ready government controlled and no votes to be had is why.
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Re: Your Green Energy
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09/21/19 08:47 AM
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Evil nuclear power is spewing into the pacific ocean at the daiichi plant in japan everyday. That mess was built by general electric, so japs could cook their rice without having to gather wood.
Get a grip man, lets burn coal. Yup, Put people back to work digging coal. We know how to burn it clean. Scrub the smoke stacks of sulfur and put it on our fields for fertilizer and grow food. All ready government controlled and no votes to be had is why. There is no such thing as "clean coal", even some coal executives will admit that. We are producing so much natural gas that we are flaring much of it off because we have no use for it and it cannot be stored. It should be used to replace coal where ever possible. It is much much cleaner and is going to waste now.
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