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Sounds frightenly plausible.
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This story is BIG
The Entire Wind Energy Industry Could Be Facing Serious Technical Problems
John Hugh DeMastri on July 3, 2023
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2023/07/03/the-entire-wind-energy-industry-could-be-facing-serious-technical-problems/
The high-profile announcement by Siemens Energy that a large portion of its wind turbines could be suffering from faulty components sent its stock tumbling last week, but many industry experts are concerned that the problems it is facing may not be unique, CNBC reported Monday.
The company announced on June 22 that between 15% and 30% of turbines installed by subsidiary Siemens Gamesa are currently suffering from component failure, prompting the company to withdraw profit estimates and sending stock plunging 36% in the immediate aftermath of the announcement. Christian Burch, CEO of Siemens Energy, said in a call with reporters Friday that “too much had been swept under the carpet” at the energy giant’s subsidiary and that the quality control issues were “more severe than [he] thought possible,” according to CNBC.
“We have to acknowledge that putting brand new machinery — whether it’s on-shore or even more difficult off-shore wind farms — and the pace of change in that machinery has put us into slightly uncharted territory,” Nicholas Green, head of EU capital goods and industrial technology at AllianceBernstein, told CNBC. “Although it’s hard to tell at the moment, my best guess is that this probably actually is an industry-wide issue. It wasn’t that Siemens Gamesa is a bad operator as such, it’s that actually some of the normal protocols and time in use, operational data in use, is relatively limited.”
The sheer size of modern turbines — cutting-edge prototypes can generate 15 megawatts (MW) of power, compared to the 1 MW that was industry standard 20 years ago — can exacerbate quality issues, Christoph Zipf, spokesman for European industry group WindEurope, told CNBC. Despite this, Zipf said that turbine failures are “extremely rare” and that “the problems at Siemens Gamesa are limited to Siemens Gamesa,” CNBC reported.
However, he noted that “the competition in the sector is pushing [original equipment manufacturers] to come up with bigger and better turbines at a fast rate, maybe faster than in other sectors,” according to CNBC. While turbines are often certified for a 20-year lifespan, most turbines contain components that will fail during that time as a cost-saving measure, industry analytics firm ONYX Insights told CNBC.
“We have been aware for some time that turbine failure rates across the industry can — and should — be more widely understood, given the scale of their potential impact on the overall profitability of projects,” Evgenia Golysheva, vice president of strategy and marketing at ONYX, told CNBC. “It’s not that they are made badly, but we now have a compromise between the cost of energy and targeted reliability. Everyone who builds, finances and operates wind turbines needs to have a realistic picture of how many failures to expect.”
ONYX expects that the industry will spend $4 billion on major repair projects by 2029, and notes that roughly 65% of maintenance costs in the industry are unplanned, CNBC reported.
“It’s a conversation that is overdue, because the underlying issues aren’t going away,” Golysheva told CNBC.
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This wind turbine news needs to be publicized far and wide.
Will it be?
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Machine guns!
Then bring on the water cannons, to wash away the blood.
Thank goodness Mexicans aren't Muslims
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"In Depends Dance Day"
A terrific cartoon!
Sadly, this describes what's goin' on.
[i while the FBI and DOJ, both enemies of the people, spend their time harassing Donald Trump for imaginary crimes to make sure that, once again, our votes won't count in the next presidential election.]
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Sarah Mclanihan
"I Will Remember you"
Dan Hill
"Sometime When We Touch"
Elton John
" Goodbye Norma Jean"
Elton John
"Levon"
Interesting video.
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Thank you, Larry. That was GREAT!
Street mumians, solo and groups are very common, in Latin America. I especially like the small groups of Indians, that come out of the hills, to entertain.
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For instance----the stupidity of Bidenomics. EVERY thinking person know that the economy is bad, yet they come out with that crap and the media falls in step.
We could fill page, but I'll mention another huge piece of stupidity.
TheInflation Reduction Act. You don't fight inflation by printing and spending more money.
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An excellent video, MG. America needs to speak out on trans for kids, demonization of religion and the very serious effort to turn American against each other.
Happy 4th of July!
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A wincing LOL!
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George Strait
"Run"
Brooks & Dunn
"Neon Moon"
Bread
"IF"
Soggy Bottom Boys
"Man Of Constant sorrow"
The Eagles
"Best Of My Love"
The Eagles
"Life In The Fast Lane"
"Plandemic" Clever and apropos!
Speaking of manipulating feelings. There are rumors that Biden's US Navy knew that the deep sea vessel, that was researching the Titanic, had imploded, shortly after it did.
But they sat on the news, so the compliant media would remain focused on the vessel, instead of concentrating on the Biden/Hunter fiasco.
True story? I don't know. If it is----disgusting!
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I've been watching examples of "stupid Americans" all afternoon.. About 30 of the the stupid ones, that I've seen, work for MSNBC and CNN
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"----"----and our Country is in big Trouble"
No argument there.
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Yep! Embarrassing. But try walking around, at night in a pub district in London or Hamberg.
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yep
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embarassing
Happy Birthday, Mz M! I hope your having a good one.
Drop by at Happy Hour, now and then.
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IMO, there was a place for affirmative Action, in America----50 years ago. Minorities, especially Blacks, were discriminate against. The discrimination was codified, by law.
Many Blacks, in the south were forced into very sub standard schools. Their educations were stymied. Following the passage of the Civil Rights Act, Blacks had opportunities opened to them, but they were faced with making the best of those opportunities, from a standing start.
Many Whites, Asians and Hispanics were denied opportunity, due to Affirmative Action. I don't know the answer to that. But I do think that Blacks got the jump start , they needed, due to a life time of discrimination.
But that time is in our rear view mirror. It's time for Blacks to seize the opportunities that MLK and others fought and died for.
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I like it1 I like it!
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Too "spot on" to be funny.
He makes me sick!
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Unfortunately, Cap is no longer a paying member. I miss him.
Okie Drifter
I never saw the justification for student loan forgiveness.
The real reason? To buy votes!
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Welcome back, ShoreNuff
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With this woke Admin and Wokes in general, the only thing that would surprise me would be honesty, coming from them.
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That was wonderful Thank you Larry.
OkieD
POSH, is this a fact?
"ud Light, Target and Disney are trying to get him ( Garth Brooks) on board to spread the woke word"
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Thank you, MG.
The Slim Kobel, that I mentioned in my post about the Battle of the Rosebud, was in interesting fellow. He had a den, nearly covered with framed displays of arrowheads and articles, that he had found on the battle site. He also had a picture, that caught my eye.
It was a picture of a group of WW I era American soldiers, kneeling in from of a railroad steam engine. The train had a hammer & sycle emblem on its' front.
I said "Slim, is that picture of the American Exped onery Force that landed in Vladivostok, during the Russian Revolution"
" Yes it is. That soldier, right there is me"
Slim then told my friend and me of the adventures of that Expedition..
A little side lnote. Slim had told us that he was an Oklahoma farm boy who road the rails to Wyoming, so he could be a cowboy.
" Slim, what Oklahoma town did you come from?"
" A little place named Bradley"
Bradley is 8 miles from my family's home town, Rush Springs.
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PW, this talk about Columbus and such have taken me back to my youth. Please bare with me as I go back.
I went to the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th grades at an American oil camp school, in Venezuela. My teacher was an American lady with an intense interest, in the Inca civilization. This was 1946-1950. Machu Pi Chu had just been discovered. My teacher's name was Rica, I've forgotten her last name.
Rica spent the summers of 1948 and 1949, working as a volunteer for the archeologists, working at Mach Pi Chu. We heard LOTS about the Inca and their ways.
The Aztecs never ventured far from their homeland. Only as far south as the Mayan territory and not far, at all to the north.
The Inca were very different. They were South America's Imperialists. Several hundred years, before Pizzaro came to them, the Inca were steadily subjugating tribes to the south of them.
They had gone as far south as to a point in Argentina's Catamarca Provence. Province. One summer, Rica had taken a bus tour to view the results of the Inca's incursions, to the South.
I could remember a picture , that she had taken of a large, low built structure, thatwas the fartherest sounth of the Inca's journey. Word reached the Inco warriors of the strangers (Spanish that had invaded the home land. The Inca closed up shop and returned to the North.
While in Argentina, my wife and I took a several day trip, driving the Ali Plano. ( High County) We came on toa stone building with some signs around. As I read them, Irealized that I was looking at the structure that Rica had told me of, 50 years earlier. It still give me chills, as I think about it
A bit more and I'll get back on topic.
The last tribes to ressist the Spanish were the Quillmes Tribe, of the central Highlands of the Argentine Andes. They resisted until the mid 1700s. The triibes consolidated in a redoubt. I spent two trips wallking those ruins. I'm enclosing a link to the Quillnes ruins.
https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/RUINS-OF-QUILMES
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What a pathetic bunch of whiny garbage! from a person with no public record of her grades.
Why were you disbarred, Moose?
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Try this.
Hi PW, I've finished Episodes Two and Three. Two tells of Christianity's role in developing Western Culture. It's easy to track.
Three gets into the way our culture expanded. I learned something I didn't remember. Columbus had requested backing from European rulers, other than Queen Isabella, of Spain.
The King of England sent word, to Columbus, that Britain would sponsor this voyages, but Columbus had already sailed, under the banner of Spain.
I've visited Mexico, Panama and all but 5 countries in South America. All those countries were colonized by Spain and Portugal. The difference between those countries and America and Canda are startling.
The difference? America and Canada were colonized by Great Britain. We have the benefit of being generally governed by the terms of the Magna Carta. We are very fortunate that Great Britain won, in the tussle to rule America and Canada
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"hats the big holdup with identifying corruption"
So much of our population is made up of Lying, deceitful Democrats.
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