MDN it is obvious you have not reached peak wind yet.
I spent three hours at work last night researching my post. Not hard research but constant. And I say google is not a educational tool, its not that I learned but just putting together what I know with links that allow a reader not to have to take my word for it was time consuming.
Yes, just touching on the foundation I have not reached my "peak wind", that is funny and if I could I would give you rep for making me laugh at myself, that is the best humor when one is made to laugh at oneself.
I am not even done addressing the foundation, I have not addressed the steel in the foundation, 170 tons. These figures seemed so incredible, even to me, I had to look them up three and four times, it just seems unreal the amount of raw materials that goes into a wind farm.
And that is the key to everything happening in our government, besides the governments ability to tax us to make these projects possible the number one issue of importance is energy.
Cement producers will make billions of dollars, does anyone doubt that people will exploit this fact politically. What is the temptation when riches beyond John D. Rockefeller's dreams are possible with a couple seemingly simple laws bought by special interest.
Those who own the mines for the raw materials to make cement will profit. At this point I must research who produces each raw material that goes into concrete, I must identify the union that truck drivers belong to, I must look into the union of the miners, I must identify the unions that the workers at the actual cement plant belong to. I than need to find if they contribute to political campaigns, where the pension funds are invested.
This is why I find it so insulting when people just post a link and think they made the point and the discussion is over.
There are too many factors to consider.
Thus far everything I have mentioned is pertaining only to the concrete foundations of a single wind turbine.
What about land issues, is it BLM land, I need to find the source, I need to link. I need to find out who owns the land, I need to see if I can find if he contributes, lobbies, or is a friend of politicians.
I also need to see who gets paid to do the research, who makes all the reports connected with a wind farm.
All this should be done now before I go on to the structure of the wind mill.
What about regulations, I should of addressed this before anything else, what about the lawyers and consultants that guides a corporation through this process.
I need to do this all to prove a lumber jack is nothing more than a lumber jack, that is old crock, he swings an ax and cuts down a tree, a perfect metaphor, old crock swings his ax and posts a link and I alone, without the assistance of heavy equipment must pick up the tree, (a young blond just walked by in the hotel that made me say, oh my god, very hot), I must strip off each branch until I can expose the bark, then I peel off the bark.
Yet before I can do that Old Crock throws Geothermal at me.
Old Crock who dropped out of high school to chop down old growth forests in Oregon simply links, and links, Old Crock the lumber jack just swings, no thought, he just knows he needs to swing his ax over and over, until I get tired, Old Crock has been swinging that same ax his entire life.
Well, my time here is almost finished for the year, I will not work the next six weeks hence I will not post. Maybe a bit to keep a thread or two of mine free of Old Crock being able to call me a liar while my back is turned.
Old Crock knows when he is beat, Old Crock will ignore his posts, Old Crock will ignore his links, Old Crock will ignore everything, in a week or two Old Crock will find new tired articles and repost the same ax-swinging, mindless, links.
Peak Wind, and I have yet to finish addressing the foundation.
