Iowa Wind Power
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Not CGI. The blades failed to pitch back to reduce the speed and secondary breaking obviously malfunctioned also allowing it to overspeed. The blades can't take it and strike the tower at the weakest point possible, folding the tower over.
I think while I was working in the industry years ago it was in Washington state that 2 people died and one was just below the folding point on the ladder because they bypassed the turbine's emergency stopping procedures and it oversped and did the same.
Centripetal forces cause the blades to disintegrate. Usually means the brakes or something else failed to allow it to spin too fast.
They said they are shutting down 42 other towers today. Yeah, can't wait until we see "clean power" blackouts just like California.
The Midwest has not been nearly as aggressive about renewable targets/shutting down fossil and nuclear.
California is really its own special situation compared to everybody else, even other ecotopias like WA and OR.
The county supervisors play a huge role in local wind energy development / supervision. I know of a neighboring county that despite having several wind projects, raised their property taxes significantly because of the cost to repair local roads / bridges after the initial construction completion. Many county supervisors are not prepared / educated to undertake these projects and need guidance.
Similar is a large solar project being proposed in another neighboring county. Will be interested in their decision, as they balance landowner rights with community health and well being.
Don't think you know how TIF works, its not money they give them but its future tax revenue that's not collected.
Iowa has horrible infrastructure and the further you get from urban areas the worse it can get. There is a lot of catching up the state needs to do and taxes are pretty much the way to do it. So these countries should've had higher taxes the whole time to pay for these things instead of getting hit hard in a couple of year period.
Yes!! Exactly. That needs to be a law. Your house can't be more than a 1/4 mile from the windmills (at least a few of them) or pig barns. Like it.
Thank goodness it only really extended to Iowa and a few others and wind power. Otherwise we could be seeing similar problems.
Living in rural Iowa, I don't feel our infrastructure is horrible at all. Absolutely there needs to be continued improvements in our health care / education systems, but the biggest obstacle we face in rural Iowa is decreasing population and labor shortages.
We do not want to become like Nebraska or Minnesota where property taxes are 2X to 3X that of Iowa on a per acre basis. What happens then is people sell their land in those states and reinvest in Iowa farmland..which drives up our price and rents. (which is a good thing if you are an investor/landowner).
I have been curious about this for a while and this seems a good place to ask. My understanding is that on those residential solar installations the power companies are required to buy any surplus power from the home owner. How does the rate they are buying the power relate to the rate the homeowner is paying when they buy from the utility. Also, how does the rate relate to the rate they are paying larger scale power generators?
If Iowa get's enough hog barns and windmills, you could reverse the spin of the windminds to blow the hog smell into Missouri. Just a thought?
The video is fake (CGI) but is pretty much what happens. The audio from this video is stolen from a real Danish windmill failure quite a few years ago.
Iowa farmers are not paying enough in property tax. I mean if we're going to have them then the share needs to be upped a little. The assessed values on farmland are a joke here.
Just to be clear, the blackouts in California are not caused by clean power. They are caused by PG&E's poor tree clearing practices which led them to be found liable for billions of dollars in damage after their lines caused a massive forest fire. You could argue that is the fault of environmentalists, but it's not clean power related. Now, PG&E pre-emptively de-energizes their lines when the wind blows strong enough to avoid liability for future fires. That is the cause of California's recent blackouts.
Ha, you got me. Is anything real these days or am I just lying in a pod generating energy and living some sort of simulated reality?
