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Wild Fires In LA

Mike Ault said:
After they're in place, that's almost free energy
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The disposal of them at the end of their life cycle is not cured and frankly, I hate what they have done to the landscape - I mean you drive for miles and miles in places and always in sight of another field full of them. At night, the red lights on time synchronize, so the entire horizon lights up and down with red. Annoying light pollution. I cannot imagine that it does not impact wildlife.
 
Terrel L. Shields said:
The disposal of them at the end of their life cycle is not cured and frankly, I hate what they have done to the landscape - I mean you drive for miles and miles in places and always in sight of another field full of them. At light, the red lights on time synchronize, so the entire horizon lights up and down with red. Annoying light pollution. I cannot imagine that it does not impact wildlife.
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Where I live you can judge the curvature of the earth by those red lights at night. There is a large field of them just west of me. They are very low on the horizon but appear large due to the atmospheric effects. As you get closer they start getting smaller as they get higher. The same effect ships sailing away have. The further away they get, the lower portion of the ship will disappear under the waterline but the upper portion keeps getting bigger and bigger until it disappears from sight as well. Weird. There's a deserted stretch of road between Portales and Roswell with no lights at all save for the ones from a large field of those wind turbines. It is kind of weird to see nothing but synchronized red lights flashing as you drive through there at night.
 
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TerryRohrer said:
Must be their website, I can't get back to it. But, the statement remains valid. Just google "cost to operate and maintain windmills" and you will find it is not free.
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You're correct. I shouldn't have said "free". I should've said "better than free", or "profitable". Something that generates more money than the costs of operation could also be described as "a cash cow".

From Google –

Yes, on average, a wind turbine generates more money than it costs to operate, meaning it is considered profitable; most wind turbines can pay for themselves within a few years through the electricity they produce, with the initial investment recouped over time after the construction phase.
 
Mike Ault said:
You're correct. I shouldn't have said "free". I should've said "better than free", or "profitable". Something that generates more money than the costs of operation could also be described as "a cash cow".

From Google –

Yes, on average, a wind turbine generates more money than it costs to operate, meaning it is considered profitable; most wind turbines can pay for themselves within a few years through the electricity they produce, with the initial investment recouped over time after the construction phase.
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You have to wonder why taxpayers are investing in cash cows and getting nothing in return. It must matter who pays and who collects!
 
TerryRohrer said:
You have to wonder why taxpayers are investing in cash cows and getting nothing in return. It must matter who pays and who collects!
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You also have to wonder why many regulated public utilities seem to have private jets for their CEOs.
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