Ha! Thanks!Love the new avatar.
Ha! Thanks!Love the new avatar.
I thought Al retired? I worked at Penn Tech for a period of time; ran the Ford Technical Outreach Center there. Hell of a collision repair program there. Al's an awesome guy!Looks like it's more a "lack of training" issue. Found this.
"Al Thomas, department head of Collision Repair at Pennsylvania College of Technology, stresses that high voltage batteries (300 volts or more) can kill a technician who has not disarmed the high voltage system properly. "
"A technical tsunami is flooding the repair industry with cutting-edge vehicle advancements. If you’re not training on new technologies and materials, you’re falling behind."
Those wind farms are an eyesore. What happens when the wind isn’t blowing? You still have to maintain your coal fired plant or go dark periodically. Those wind farms also kill soaring birds
I agree with your first point but there is usually wind somewhere. Investment will be needed to provide storage for excess generation such as this or thisThose wind farms are an eyesore. What happens when the wind isn’t blowing? You still have to maintain your coal fired plant or go dark periodically. Those wind farms also kill soaring birds
My reference was to soaring birds such as eagles, hawks, vultures, and particularly the California Condor. I should have clarified. Yes, cats are a menace to song birds.
Should I have been surprised that the condor didn’t receive the same kind of media attention as the spotted owl? Or, have I been living under a rock?Found it....
Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades
The study ran for nine years at Norway's Smøla wind farm. Link.
I’m all for what’s best, but I remain a skeptic at heart. Entering these debates takes time consuming research. I’m spread a bit thin. I appreciate those of you putting the links out there.Every problem has a solution... if you only look hard enough.
Those wind farms are an eyesore. What happens when the wind isn’t blowing? You still have to maintain your coal fired plant or go dark periodically.
We don't get many California Condors around here. I'd like to know where, exactly, in New York State, they want to build these "offshore" wind turbines. Ten, twenty years ago (or so) they were talking about putting some up out in Lake Ontario, so far out you couldn't see them from shore. You shoulda heard the clamor! Project cancelled. Now, if you go to Cape Vincent (near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River), and look across into Ontario, Canada, there are wind turbines everywhere, on shore! Yeah, the eye of the beholder. I think they're cool. Unless you want to freeze to death in the dark, you'll have to put practicality ahead of aesthetics. Wind. Hydro. Geo. Solar. Anything but fossil, if we are to survive as a species. Some say we're already past the tipping point. Pray for our kids, and their kids...and particularly the California Condor
And strip mines for coal are so pretty? Or the oil wells?Those wind farms are an eyesore. ..........
Have to wonder about all the wild life affected by those strip mines and the run off from the sludge ponds from the coal plants leaching into the rivers and lakes?Those wind farms also kill soaring birds
Those wind farms are an eyesore. What happens when the wind isn’t blowing? You still have to maintain your coal fired plant or go dark periodically. Those wind farms also kill soaring birds