Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

Looks like a bunch of mid's and top's.

 

I forget where we were but my wife and I saw a trainload of windmill blades and turbines. Whole train,.. nothing but windmill stuff.

I dont get it. I keep reading mixed stuff about those windmills.

They say 10,000 acres of those things still dont come close to what 1 small mid town coal fired power plant produces. I also read a bunch of conspiracy theories about them as well. Govt throwing extreme kick backs to the companies putting those things up.


Personally I think they are ugly monstrosities. The only good thing I can say about them is that they are keeping people employed. In this day and age thats important.

Hurst

 

Many years ago in Sweetwater Tx I asked a Mitsubishi rep there the deal financially.
He said the break even point of those towers was ONE year, selling the power to the DFW area. I'd say that was pretty impressive myself.
They try to put them on rail every few years, then the rail company screws up, and back on trucks they go. @4yrs ago Siemens in Ia had a LOAD of busted blades in their yard, courtesy of BNSF IIRC. Cant tell you how many shippers I have heard the same thing from.....

Martin

 

Yep and the base sections they tried to bring up to the job I did years ago in Ohio, Il.
Seems the rail car carrying the bases clipped another train going the other direction and damaged the flanges.
Plus G.E. moving the nacelles on rail and found out the hard way they had to refab the flat cars.. So now GE. has a whole lot of flat cars just for the nacelles..

 

They are subsidized by the government (tax payers) and so is every other form of energy, only with wind, without the subsidies they would not be cost effective at this time. It is also worth mentioning though, that building these wind sites is cheaper than building any other type of new electrical producing facility, except natural gas. Costs to produce and build these windmills are coming down, so they are becoming more economically feasible. Studies show that wind is at or better than grid parity (production for the same cost as traditional production) in the best sites.

I think most folks that have a problem with wind energy is the claim that it makes as far as the "green movement." Some will say that they produce more emissions than what they save, while that might be true to the point of getting them built, once they are built and are producing electricity they produce zero emissions.

 

Martin, I think I forgot to tell you that the base that was dropped south of Denver, the trailer broke.

 

Geez, he does one job and became an expert.........HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

Martin

 

Yep, it was a new design trailer. No bolts from what I have been told. "Mechanical error" was the State Patrols findings. No doubt the mother ship will happily throw the driver under the nearest bus though.

Martin

 

But they kill the birds / they cast a shadow / they are noisy.. We all have heard it from the nay sayers..
Me right now my new motto instead of "blow me" it's "drill baby drill"

 

Nope, for several years I have had a good friend that has done nothing but bad mouth wind energy, so I have done my research to shut him up.