I thought this was America?

[DoubleAtotheRON]

most oil in a lot of the turbines use a light cooking oil, in hydraulic system.

Nope... my wife works in this Industry.. it's hydraulic fluid for blade pitch and direction control.

 

[rkymtnman]

Nope... my wife works in this Industry.. it's hydraulic fluid for blade pitch and direction control.

i thought it was funny when we drove to south dakota a few years ago. all up through CO there were wind turbines everywhere you looked. as soon as we crossed into nebraska, nothing.

 

[Boatguy]

i thought it was funny when we drove to south dakota a few years ago. all up through CO there were wind turbines everywhere you looked. as soon as we crossed into nebraska, nothing.

It is odd. We have 3 wind generators in gloucester, ma.. most times only one or two are moving.
You would think with the constant breeze on the coast those things would be spinning 24/7

 

[rkymtnman]

It is odd. We have 3 wind generators in gloucester, ma.. most times only one or two are moving.
You would think with the constant breeze on the coast those things would be spinning 24/7

from what i've read, those floating generators that use the waves in the ocean is/should be the future at least near the coasts.

 

[cannabineer]

When and if I do watch the national news I watch cbs. And even they are biased. But they seem to me as the least biased. When I want to know about an issue I get on the internet and do my own research and read both sides of an issue and form my own opinion. I mainly watch local news only. For me I do not need someone telling me their opinion on an issue instead of just giving me the facts and letting me form my own opinion. I also do not like all the division that is promoted by the right or the left. Until we all come together as Americans and work towards the common good we will never fix our problems. But if we did come together as a nation we would not need all the politicians that are bought and payed for by special interest. And I mean politicians on both sides of the political spectrum.

I don’t watch news for a coupla subjective reasons. Online I tend to use Reuters (even though they always screw up my registration) or AP, sometimes NPR. It’s a lot of fun to see whom others use on here, especially when it’s from sites that select or even distort the news to fit a narrative. I don’t remember near as much ideology driving big news providers forty years ago, but that could be a product of my inattention back then.

 

[hanimmal]

First off have not watched Fox news in many many years. But I do not watch NBC or MSNBC either. I do not watch national news period because they are all slanted to one side or the other.

I have no problem with starting to move toward cleaner energy.

But if the US is the only Country to do it then what have we truly gained.

A sustainable clean energy grid?

But no one ever answered my questions posed in response #125.

Sorry I really hate posting in these troll threads.

Post #125:

Just a thought. Where are we going to get all the electricity from? We do not have the infrastructure to go all electric. We barely have enough to get us by now. What happens to a city or state when a hurricane hits and all power is out? What happens during mass evacuations ahead of storms? These are things that no one has thought through.

From everything, and as always that includes oil.

'We barely have enough to get us by now' because post WW2 suburban sprawled, and we wired up every bit of this country and have been allowing it to slowly rot ever since (coincidently tax rates on the rich were around what 95%).

And I guess since Maddow is educated that means she has no political bias?

Is she lying to anyone or cherry picking around inconvenient facts that debunk her entire narrative? There is a difference between her and the entertainers on Fox.

She is one of the most politically devisive people in all the news agency's.

On just that one news agency? Or are you using the plural all agencies like Fox/Oann/etc? Because if it is the second one, I wonder if maybe you are correctly excluding right wing hate mongers like Hannity/Levin/Tucker.

I do not claim any political affiliation.

There is nothing wrong with that. The last decade+ have been very confusing with the propaganda attack being conducted on us by the Republicans and their right wing handlers.

The Republican nor the Democrats have all the answers.

Man, we don't even know all the questions for them to know all the answers.

But one party is working hard to have highly qualified reality based candidates so that we have the best chance at serious people making the decisions that we need made as a nation. And that is not the Republicans, who are too busy trying to use all their time 'owning the libs' so that they can keep their cult from being able to communicate with anyone without triggering some divisive topic response.

Today there aim is to divide us as a people and look after there own special interest.

The 'both sides' with this is just not reality. Just because people are being programed to hate a politician for any variety of reasons, to the point that they trigger over every edited click bait video is not the fault of that politician.

The Republicans have gone off the reservation man. They crossed the line when they allowed a foreign military to attack our citizens because it helped them maintain the power to keep yet another generation of mega wealthy kids to get away without paying taxes.

Anyways. Back to laughing at all the stupid shit trolls are on about in the days before one of the most pivotal elections in American history.

 

[cannabineer]

i thought it was funny when we drove to south dakota a few years ago. all up through CO there were wind turbines everywhere you looked. as soon as we crossed into nebraska, nothing.

I recently read that a lot of that mid-prairie land is dotted with Air Force holdings, and they recently expanded the “no tall structures” radius around each. This threw a wrench into many NE landowners’ plans to put up turbines.

 

[Boatguy]

from what i've read, those floating generators that use the waves in the ocean is/should be the future at least near the coasts.

The tide is way more reliable than wind

 

[rkymtnman]

I recently read that a lot of that mid-prairie land is dotted with Air Force holdings, and they recently expanded the “no tall structures” radius around each. This threw a wrench into many NE landowners’ plans to put up turbines.

i was thinking they were just giving a middle finger to all the free power CO was generating up that way. lol.

there's a few of the abandoned minuteman (i think?) sites up in northern and eastern CO. i've seen a few sites that post pics of people that have snuck in and taken pics. crazy looking shit for sure and dangerous as hell.

 

[DoubleAtotheRON]

i thought it was funny when we drove to south dakota a few years ago. all up through CO there were wind turbines everywhere you looked. as soon as we crossed into nebraska, nothing.

That's because they're all in Oklahoma "Where the Winds Come Sweeping Down the Plains"

 

[cannabineer]

i was thinking they were just giving a middle finger to all the free power CO was generating up that way. lol.

there's a few of the abandoned minuteman (i think?) sites up in northern and eastern CO. i've seen a few sites that post pics of people that have snuck in and taken pics. crazy looking shit for sure and dangerous as hell.

If I were richer and smarter a few decades ago, I would have simply loved turning an old Titan silo into a man cave.

 

[Grandpapy]

I don’t watch news for a coupla subjective reasons. Online I tend to use Reuters (even though they always screw up my registration) or AP, sometimes NPR. It’s a lot of fun to see whom others use on here, especially when it’s from sites that select or even distort the news to fit a narrative. I don’t remember near as much ideology driving big news providers forty years ago, but that could be a product of my inattention back then.

Maybe.

 

[cannabineer]

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Maybe.

“put a tiger in your tank”?

 

[rkymtnman]

If I were richer and smarter a few decades ago, I would have simply loved turning an old Titan silo into a man cave.

it was titan not minuteman. cool pics though

A Top Secret Cold War Missile Site Right Outside Denver

Unknown and unexplored by all but a few dedicated urban explorers, this subterranean collection of tunnels and chambers was once a top-secret feder...

www.iexplore.com

 

[Grandpapy]

“put a tiger in your tank”?

It was around that time that Nixon invited The Oil Giants into the Energy Dept.

 

[CunningCanuk]

“put a tiger in your tank”?

First thing that came to my mind too.

 

[OldMedUser]

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Maybe.

I remember those tiger tails when I was a kid. We'd steal them off peoples cars and tie them to our bikes to be 'cool'.

I think it was Esso that ran that ad campaign but not sure.

 

[CANON_Grow]

Just a thought. Where are we going to get all the electricity from? We do not have the infrastructure to go all electric. We barely have enough to get us by now. What happens to a city or state when a hurricane hits and all power is out? What happens during mass evacuations ahead of storms? These are things that no one has thought through.

You raise important questions, and there is at least one example that answers some of those questions, from when hurricane Ian came through. Babcock Ranch
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/05/1126900340/florida-community-designed-weather-hurricane-ian-babcock-ranch-solar

 

[cannabineer]

I remember those tiger tails when I was a kid. We'd steal them off peoples cars and tie them to our bikes to be 'cool'.

I think it was Esso that ran that ad campaign but not sure.

 

[OldMedUser]

I don’t watch news for a coupla subjective reasons. Online I tend to use Reuters (even though they always screw up my registration) or AP, sometimes NPR. It’s a lot of fun to see whom others use on here, especially when it’s from sites that select or even distort the news to fit a narrative. I don’t remember near as much ideology driving big news providers forty years ago, but that could be a product of my inattention back then.

I start my news day at 3:30pm with BBC News America then at 4:00 with PBS world News and then the local CTV news mostly for the good weather reports.

None of those news programs does much more than show the news with no particular angle. PBS does have a couple guys on Friday's broadcast that discuss the weeks events in more depth which I like but MSN or CNN is 90% speculation and the same talking heads over and over so if I have a few minutes between programs I may flip to one to see what's up but never watch for long. 90% tRump related crap these days and a guy can only take so much of that BS.

I can't understand how any halfways intelligent Republican can watch what has happened to their party and still vote for them. Honesty and trustworthiness used to be prized attributes of any politician or anyone else for that matter. A pair of Bushes was bad enough but tRump is an abomination to all things decent.

If I were American I'd be a Dem for sure but I hold a lot of the same beliefs as Cons when the party was true to itself and it's stated values.

Here in Alberta we just had a mid-term change of leaders. The last premier voted in, (still under RCMP review for how he got elected), held a vote of confidence and quit because he only got 51.5%. Then a vote in the party was held to select a new leader out of 6 and after the 6th ballot a female tRump won with 53.8% so barely more than the last idiot. Provincial election next May so with any luck we'll have the NDP back for their 2nd term in almost 50 years of conservative rule. Alberta is often referred to as Texas North.