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A Curiosity | 26 comments (26 topical)
Re: A Curiosity (3.00 / 0) (#20)
by CG on Mon Dec 12, 2005 at 02:53:23 AM MST

It's just not true that no one has seen this machine in operation, it has been on test at Queebec University for over fourteen months. This is independent testing, and so far the results have been above expectations. Some of the engineers on this project were part of the team that worked on the Canadian 4MW Darrieus, so they ought to know what they are doing.

As for the dangers for school children, they have more chance of being shot by their classmates and other gun nuts than being injured by wind turbines.

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cheap pot shots (3.00 / 0) (#21)
by wdyasq on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 08:21:06 AM MST

Yep. 'As for the dangers for school children, they have more chance of being shot by their classmates and other gun nuts than being injured by wind turbines.'

Or getting run over by the school bus.  Or getting killed in sports. All of which are not related to nuts with guns.  

"Some of the engineers on this project were part of the team that worked on the Canadian 4MW Darrieus, so they ought to know what they are doing." - well they sure know what doesn't work long term.  14 months is not long term testing - IMO.

Ron
Adventure is just bad planning." -- Roald Amundsen
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Re: cheap pot shots (3.00 / 0) (#22)
by finnsawyer on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 09:13:33 AM MST

I don't get some of this.  What does kids being shot at or near school, or being run over by a bus have to do with this?  There is a child living in the area who is paralyzed as the result of being hit by a driver while getting off of a school bus, as he drove around the stopped bus.  A real tragedy.  He violated the law, and I thought he got off too easily.  While accidents do happen, I don't see how violations of the law should enter this discussion.  Now, the State takes a real interest in our safety.  I have to install three Arc Fault Circuit Interrupters in my entry panel at a cost of $45.00 per instead of the normal $3.50 circuit breakers, because somebody decided that this new technology will protect me from a class of fires that occurs one time in what, ten thousand?  So, why are they turning a blind eye to the dangers from this proposed 'pig in a poke'?
GeoM
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Re: cheap pot shots (3.00 / 0) (#23)
by TomW on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 10:44:00 AM MST

fin;

I "think" the cheap pot shot was the comment about guns in the hands of children. Indeed you can be killed by many things and I find it unlikely that safety can be legislated whether it be traffic laws, electrical safety or gun laws. I find it rather ludicrous to have untested technology of a large rotating nature with a fall zone that includes a concentration of humans, especially children.

Personally, I took the gun comment as a cheap shot at legal gun ownership but thats just me. Everyone has their agenda, that is clear.

Could be wrong tho.

Cheers.

TomW

Without fools, you could not look intelligent. There is no knowledge without questions.


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Re: cheap pot shots (3.00 / 0) (#24)
by CG on Wed Dec 14, 2005 at 03:27:31 AM MST

When somebody posts on this board that they have built out of odds and ends a Piggott style turbine everybody rushes to congratulate them on a job well done, nobody asks the builder of that turbine of his engineering experience or if the turbine has had "long term testing". But when a group of qualified engineers from reputable companies build and test in a university a wind turbine all sorts of angst comes to the fore. I have to say I do admire the people who build they own turbines, I just want a bit of common sense here, these Windstor turbines are not going to be errected without some sort of control by local authorities.

It's all about what society a person grows up in. Look how you have risen to the bait about guns - and I consider one child killed by  another with an easily aquired gun rather an expensive shot not a cheap one - but then I come from a different part of the world. In years to come there may be many Windstor or other types of fairly large wind turbines in urban areas and people will think no more of it than you think of owning a gun. But rest assured if one of them fails causing serious loss of life before they catch on that will end urban siting of large wind turbines, but no matter how many people are killed by guns not too much is done about it where you are, but then that's your affair and not mine.

Please give Windstor a chance, I am pretty sure it's an important addition to wind energy.

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Re: cheap pot shots (3.00 / 0) (#26)
by finnsawyer on Wed Dec 14, 2005 at 08:19:54 AM MST

I have indicated that I am willing to give them a chance.  Many years of operation in an unpopulated area like that site along M-26.
GeoM
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