Video follows.
Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, Maryland, USA (acting as Explosives Design and Performance Subcontractor to Main Demolition Contractor, Dallas Demolition of Houston, Texas who was working for RiverCap Ventures of Rocky River, Ohio, the General Demolition Contractor) performs the successful explosives felling of 90, Mitsubishi 1000A Wind Turbines in New Mexico.
No effort was made to preserve foundations or other wind farm infrastructure. CDI’s crew felled the 90 Units in two (2) mobilizations to the site, permitting the Wind Farm Owner to complete salvage of blades and drive-train elements from some of the wind turbines to provide replacement parts for similar Units they operate at other wind farm locations. The Units were safely felled, exactly per plan, and ahead of schedule.
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Any data available on how much power these windmills produced in their 15 years of lifetime? Was it more that the energy needed to manufacture them, plus the energy needed for a cleanup?
Not certain, yet when the term power is qualified with the word “useful” then the answer is a rather large net negative. ( And that is not counting the cost of the spinning reserve loss that backed up these monstrosities for their short life cycle.)
typical
large waste of resources
probably never recovered the embedded energy
… and the birds cheered !
i’d like to think that here in Australia they would blow them up at the end of their useful life but somehow, I expect we will be left with this blight on our landscape until they fall over. There are quite a few windfarms here that must be getting close to their end, so I am interested to know.
The 35 ton composite blades can’t be repurposed or recycled. My company was a tech pioneer in getting Enron blade manufacturing launched. Now GE Wind. Enron Lay, Gore and Hansen cooked up the COX, SOX, NOX Ch4 trading/tax schemes. Gore promised carbon free energy by 5 years ago. 1,450 tons of coal to make the tower for a fan and the rebar in the pad. Natural gas ovens are used to dehydrate gypsum to make cement.
You can’t put a price on the value of greenie weenie virtue signaling.
Blade salvage? Spare parts? That’s almost as unbelievable as catastrophic anthropogenic global warming itself
Why is it that 90% of the wind turbines I see, even on windy days are not turning? Specifically, I have only once seen the turbines on the hills over San Luis Reservoir off CA Hwy 152 actually spinning, they are always feathered, just sitting there, looking ugly.
I seem to remember someone right here telling us how this stuff would all be reused and repurposed only a few days ago…
[QUOTE FROM ARTICLE]”CDI’s crew felled the 90 Units in two (2) mobilizations to the site, permitting the Wind Farm Owner to complete salvage of blades and drive-train elements from some of the wind turbines to provide replacement parts for similar Units they operate at other wind farm locations.”[END QUOTE]
Does anyone seriously think that a turbine blade or drive train can be salvaged after an uncontrolled crash from over 100 feet in the air?
If they really wanted to “salvage” the turbine blades, they would have to use a crane to disconnect the turbine from the drive shaft and gently lower it to the ground. But then someone would have to pay to rent the crane and its operator, which is probably more expensive than Wile E. Coyote and “Controlled” Demolition.
Our farm had natural gas pipeline crossing from 80 years ago. It showed corrosion from sour SO2 and was ordered removed. They rented 10 acres of land and stacked 2,000 80′ pieces of pipe. Every pipe was tested and 100 with asbestos were bagged in plastic and hauled away seperately. They had to restore all the access roads, cut fences pastures, crop surfaces for 100’s of miles and pay damage settlements. They can’t leave a mess with dead fans.
Of course this video doesn’t show the gathering grid of poles and power lines also removed plus the buried lines.
It’d be nice to see a time lapse aerial video of all 90 going down in 90 seconds.
This film should be titled ” The Raptors Revenge ” 🙂
What a beautiful sight!