To be fair we don't normally pull the old pipe out of the ground unless it is in our way to run the new line. I've been on facilities that we found unmarked inactive lines that no one knows what they held or who put them there. Shit has caused many of excavator operator to have a heart attack hitting a 14" pipe where no pipes should be but you're aware that some lines are pushing 2000+psi raw gas or natural gas in the place you're working. We pretty much have to hydro-vac everything on a facility because of this and it cost something like $30,000 a day to have them dig something an excavator could do in an hour for $500-$1000
Can’t really fix stooopid. Just like how these same people want all electric cars because they don’t produce emissions... um where do you think that power comes from.
Why are they burying them? I understand they can't reuse them, or recycle them (okay, I don't understand that one, entirely -- I'm sure a Mexican could find a use for them), but BURYING them? Is it to hide the evidence of what a farce this all is?
But why? Why do they need to be taken down in the first place? Age? Wear and tear? Can't they be repaired and added back? Or are they just abandoning wind farms?
Wear and tear, they are very delicate and must be balanced and have the proper tolerances. Much more expensive to repair and reuse than just producing more, which in turn produces even more Carbon in the manufacturing process and delivering products to the site
Probably a lot, on the bigger ones a wing typically does one 360 rotation in just seconds and each wing could be 150ft long. That's about 100mph on the edge of the wing.
In Europe they're burning them. What a clown world we live in.
To be fair we don't normally pull the old pipe out of the ground unless it is in our way to run the new line. I've been on facilities that we found unmarked inactive lines that no one knows what they held or who put them there. Shit has caused many of excavator operator to have a heart attack hitting a 14" pipe where no pipes should be but you're aware that some lines are pushing 2000+psi raw gas or natural gas in the place you're working. We pretty much have to hydro-vac everything on a facility because of this and it cost something like $30,000 a day to have them dig something an excavator could do in an hour for $500-$1000
Send them to my town. Some yuppie hipsters will turn them into ugly art and put them in the middle of the roundabouts
Build a wall out of them.
I liked the roundabout dog tho, especially the one that looked like Mohamed.
Can’t really fix stooopid. Just like how these same people want all electric cars because they don’t produce emissions... um where do you think that power comes from.
And half to most of the power is lost when going through powerlines. E.g. 40 miles is half and 600 miles is most.
>Can’t really fix stooopid.
With a pair of garden shears, you can.
Why are they burying them? I understand they can't reuse them, or recycle them (okay, I don't understand that one, entirely -- I'm sure a Mexican could find a use for them), but BURYING them? Is it to hide the evidence of what a farce this all is?
IF THEY BURY THEM THEN THERE WILL BE NO PHOTOS OF HOW MANY THERE ARE. EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL. EVERYTHING.
50 year life cycle....
AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA
But why? Why do they need to be taken down in the first place? Age? Wear and tear? Can't they be repaired and added back? Or are they just abandoning wind farms?
Wear and tear, they are very delicate and must be balanced and have the proper tolerances. Much more expensive to repair and reuse than just producing more, which in turn produces even more Carbon in the manufacturing process and delivering products to the site
these people are morons
I wonder how many dead birds this picture represents
Probably a lot, on the bigger ones a wing typically does one 360 rotation in just seconds and each wing could be 150ft long. That's about 100mph on the edge of the wing.