Re: Wind energy a boon for farmers - tenfold returns !

From: Jim Greenfield (greenfield_7_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: 21 Nov 2004 23:07:31 -0800

Dean Hoffman <dh0496@ineINbrasVALkaID.com> wrote in message news:<BDC551FE.63D04%dh0496@ineINbrasVALkaID.com>...
> On 11/20/04 4:44 AM, in article CPKdnSV2V5WFtQLcRVn-vg@rcn.net,
> "jmfbahciv@aol.com" <jmfbahciv@aol.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I hear they exist. So far I haven't heard of any that have lasted
> > for more than 20 years. I am assuming that they're so new that
> > none of the usual post-partum reports can be done because
> > they haven't been in service long enough.
> >
> >
> > /BAH
> >
> > Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail.
>
> A search for oldest wind turbine turned up a project by Princeton, MA.
> The article said they are replacing the original turbines installed in 1984.
> The new ones will produce 40 times the power of the old ones. It doesn't
> say if the old ones are being replace because of efficiency or because
> they're getting worn.
> Think about sea going vessels. Those things last for years. I think it
> was the USS Missouri that was used during the Vietnam war. It was on that
> ship that the Japanese signed surrender papers to end WWII.

I still have my grandfather's axe; it's had four new heads, three new handles-
still as good as new!

Jim G

> Here's the link for the Massachusetts wind farm:
>
> http://www.newwindenergy.com/windfarm_map.html
>
> Dean
>
>

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