save the earth people, where are they

[cpdad93]

WTF, our mountainsides are becoming covered with these damn windmills and solar farms. It is starting to look like something from a mad max movie. There are even road signs warning about solar glare to drivers causing accidents. Looks like a bunch of trash scattered all over the mountains. Where are these people that want no trees cut, but they accept this?

 

[was thatguy]

WTF, our mountainsides are becoming covered with these damn windmills and solar farms. It is starting to look like something from a mad max movie. There are even road signs warning about solar glare to drivers causing accidents. Looks like a bunch of trash scattered all over the mountains. Where are these people that want no trees cut, but they accept this?

Um... those don’t count to the dimwits.

 

[RiverDave]

Bizarre isn’t it?

 

[buck35]

If they only knew of the energy required to make a panel.

 

[Gelcoater]

WTF, our mountainsides are becoming covered with these damn windmills and solar farms. It is starting to look like something from a mad max movie. There are even road signs warning about solar glare to drivers causing accidents. Looks like a bunch of trash scattered all over the mountains. Where are these people that want no trees cut, but they accept this?

It’s the hypocrisy known as the democrat party.

 

[DRYHEAT]

They are all part of the NIMBY crowd, it’s all wonderful if they don’t see it.

 

[grumpy88]

I agree . The desert has been bull dozed to put in fields of solar but a dirt bike ridding through the same desert is a eco disaster . Add holes

 

[was thatguy]

I see those giant blades being trucked all the time on I-70 and I-80

Wonder how much fuel is required JUST to truck and assemble the components for a big one?

 

[napanutt]

I agree . The desert has been bull dozed to put in fields of solar but a dirt bike ridding through the same desert is a eco disaster . Add holes

Selective enforcement.

 

[Gelcoater]

I agree . The desert has been bull dozed to put in fields of solar but a dirt bike ridding through the same desert is a eco disaster . Add holes

F’n! Add holes!

 

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[Cray Paper]

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That right there will NEVER be on a newspaper or magazine cover. Thanks for sharing.

 

[was thatguy]

Stock image.
I see much bigger trucks with trailer cabs on the freeways with just a single blade.

 

[Flying_Lavey]

My dad has told many stories how they used to go ride their dirt bikes out in sand canyon when he was a teenager and into his 20's. Then they closed it down stating envirmental problems. Then, within the next couple decades, you'd be hard pressed to find any part of the area that hasn't been developed.

It's ALL money grabs. Just for different reasons they use.

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[rrrr]

I hate fucking windmills with a passion. Beautiful ridgelines all over the US are covered with the damn things.

Solar farms are destroying the desert, the cocksuckers say "Oh, it's desert, the land is useless for anything else". The beautiful and fragile ecosystem I was born on and love is being desecrated by those assholes.

 

[NicPaus]

That solar farm past lake Tamarisk when you get off the 10 to Rice RD is Huge now. Heard birds flying over get cooked mid flight.

 

[DRYHEAT]

Stock image.
I see much bigger trucks with trailer cabs on the freeways with just a single blade.

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The typical roadshow for one windmill is nine heavy haul trucks and 12 pilot cars, this does not include cranes and cement trucks or associated contractors vehicles at the site of installation.

 

[Yellowboat]

The typical roadshow for one windmill is nine heavy haul trucks and 12 pilot cars, this does not include cranes and cement trucks or associated contractors vehicles at the site of installation.

Or all the trucks/ equipment used when they decomission the turbines.

 

[Havaduner]

Glad to know I'm not the only one that thinks these things are an eyesore in the desert.

 

[Old Texan]

Stock image.
I see much bigger trucks with trailer cabs on the freeways with just a single blade.

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Most if not all are built abroad and shipped here. I sold a lot of rigging and other services for those damned things. Companies that bid to built the pedestals were lowballed by Pac rim companies.

Most when put in service sit idle for various reasons. Maintenance is expensive and difficult, yet the greenies claim they are the future of energy......

 

[Old Texan]

I hate fucking windmills with a passion. Beautiful ridgelines all over the US are covered with the damn things.

Solar farms are destroying the desert, the cocksuckers say "Oh, it's desert, the land is useless for anything else". The beautiful and fragile ecosystem I was born on and love is being desecrated by those assholes.

Teddy K fought to keep them off the coast of the Kennedy compound view. Hypocrisy abounds with these inefficient eyesores....

 

[coolchange]

My nephew runs a crane thats hanging these things out in tehachapi jawbone area. At the base of each one of those things is a toxic waste dump.
I read somewhere that by the time those things ROI out and start producing positive energy they break down and have to be replaced.

 

[nowski]

What's sad is there are many places in the desert you can't ride because we now have environmental regulations. But if your sleeping with the politicians and have a boat load of money you can put up a windmill farm pretty much where ever you damn well please. I guess those wind mill farms are good for the environment and appealing to the natural landscape but not in my eyes...

 

[brianwhiteboy]

Wind mill +1, environmentalist 0

Oh the irony...

 

[Dana757]

Uhhhhh, it's the environmentalist / save the earth folks behind all that I alway thought

 

[Dana757]

Pretty wicked image ...... no thanks

 

[playdeep]

Drove west into Amarillo last week.
I was stunned...
There are hundreds right along the I 40 corridor. for 30+miles into Amarillo.

...that's all you see for miles both sides of the interstate.

 

[DaveC]

When you accept the fact this eco movement nonsense is just a business then it all makes sense. The entire business is designed to make the investors rich

We would be very wise to invest also

 

[4Waters]

 

[OLDRAAT]

Overspeed, brake failure, gearbox malfunctions, excessive and expensive maintenance seem to be the death sentence for these.

I believe in the next few years the failures will contribute greatly to more wildfires in dry, windy areas of the country. If they come apart, many gallons of burning gear oil could be released and be difficult to control.
Hope I'm wrong.

OR

 

[Nordie]

Seen this on FB the other day and laughed

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[DaveC]

She's gonna need a ring and bearing job.........