Justwannabme, my buddies hunting camp is just a few minutes from Bliss, its in Centerville actually. They just got a contract for whatever company to put up a windmill on their property, free electricity for life, and the yearly lease is enough to pay the entire property tax, the insurance on the property, and leaves some left over for fueling up the trucks and quads.

They really aren't anything to complain about, the deer don't seem to mind them either, I got one last year about 40yds from the base of one of the towers. Neighbors have been complaining about the so called "Hum" they produce, I can tell you, I can't hear it, and my treestand is just 20yds from one of the bases. Some people will complain about getting a free lunch now a days.

 

yeah, we need the greatest generation to haunt the liberals I guess....

no one seems to care about anything other than their hand getting greased....

my friends are further up in elevation and in a rural town like mine. the farmer wanted to put a test wind station in (sst)not anything huge.

all of a sudden , a band of 'people' were lamenting the horrors of all such science proven nonsense. people who don't have any bearing on this project, land, neighbors, anything. just bus them in from some non profit life style.
amazing. I'll spare everyone the politics or details, thanks.

glad for the input, and that IS GREAT hunting out there! want me to tell ya some great spots? hehehe

Heidi out

 

There are tens of large large wind turbine generators sitting idle on the south end of the the Big Island of Hawaii. They are sitting mostly motionless and just rusting away.

It's sad. I'd like to know what caused them to basically be abandoned.

JH

 

Ha, well it wasn't so great for us this year, we went out the second weekend, after all of the big bucks had been taken. We had 9 guys out all weekend, right after Thanksgiving day til Sunday, and all we saw was 3 doe we pushed out. It probably doesn't help that we're right against the Sate Hunting Land, but the last few years I've harvested some decent ones out of that property. One was in the running for Uncle Tom's Cabin's Big Buck Contest, still have the hat layin around somewhere.

Matt

 

Whole lot of studies being done up here for them...I know a farmer up the road that has a small wind gen at his place now, haven't talked to him yet but his neighbor said, the ol'man is having fun with it and his meter is running backwards.

 

There is a bunch of windmills that are proposed around Northern B.C I hope the crane company I work for is getting the contract to unload and assemble them.

Nick.

 

Wow, does that mean there are no more 'green' energy sources. Wind is bad, hydro must be bad (fish getting squished), coal is dirty, NG is expensive, and nuclear is a four letter word. I guess paying out the nose for solar is our only option.

 

We're suppose to get a bunch of them over in the thumb. Already have a couple west of Traverse City. Won't be long and you'll see them all around the Great Lakes Circle Tour. Maybe they can combine them with cell antennas to thin out the towers and clean things up a bit?

 

I have seen the ones up in Tug Hill area a few times, and had a chance to check out the blades this past summer. We were by the information center, and they had 3 blades in a parking lot, parked the truck in front of one, and man that puts it into perspective.

Really interesting to read up on them a little, and there are a TON of them up there...

 

Yeah, you gotta watch that nuclear stuff, it's dangerous. I'd stay away from that for sure.

 

Hey Hey Hey why do the drunk guys have to be cowboys???

Just bustin your chops Heidi.

 

Like txfiremedic said, There are thousnads of them going up in West Texas. They go as far as you can see.

 

I saw a show on one of the Discovery channels about some of these that they are testing underwater in the Hudson river. They are far more efficient and less downtime when being spun by river current instead of the wind.

No dead birds either and they do not spin fast enough to bother fish. Pretty cool idea I guess as far as changing the way we look at Hydroelectric power.

 

Windmills in Oliver Springs, TN -

http://home.fuse.net/tgiesse/coalcreek/P1010143.JPG

 

They are putting up 287 of the windmills 8 miles south of my house. Actually, I applied for a maintenance position with the company! I think they will be good, but the thing that bothers me the most is the way they cluttler up the landscape. We went to NW Iowa a month ago or so, and they just were scattered everywhere. I've seen one windmill farm that had them all lined up in rows. That didn't look so bad, but the ones around me looked scattered with no rhyme or reason to it. Sure will change the view. The blades are like 8 ft. in diameter at the mounting point. HUGE! I'll try to get a pic with my truck in front of them for comparison.