Comments on: Parkinson high on wind

By: bth

bth — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:24:58 +0000

kfg - I’d like to see turbines IN town, at least in certain locations. I don’t see NIMBY as an issue considering the fact that the landowners must approve the contracts.

Community wind is another idea you might find intriguing. A group of land-owners go in together and build their own network. They then generate their own power on their own land. K-State is working with that through extension service.

By: Phantom

Phantom — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:43:01 +0000

I wouldn’t care if Wichita was ringed with turbines. I think they look kind of neat.

By: ksfarmgrrl

ksfarmgrrl — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:32:06 +0000

How nice that you all support wind… as long as the turbines are not located in YOUR backyard.

NIMBY

By: Wiseman

Wiseman — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:01:10 +0000

Gee Regular, do you comb your hair at the mirror or does it crack when you screech from seeing yourself.
Ye have little faith; windmills are not just slap together on the spur of the moment.
They are thoroughly engineered and well thought of, those things are not small, and they are huge in sizes.
Not something thrown together, you need to go to the Netherlands sometime and see what marvels they have accomplish.

By: CapnAmerica

CapnAmerica — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:00:53 +0000

Thank God, Regular doesn’t like the idea.

If he’s against it, you know it’s right.

By: CapnAmerica

CapnAmerica — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:59:18 +0000

Damn.

It’s about time.

We’re the Saudi Arabia of wind energy here and because rich people can’t get richer from it, nothing happens . . .

By: Phantom

Phantom — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:00:34 +0000

Just think about all those damned telephone and electric towers all across Kansas. Seems they would cover many times the surface area of windmills.

By: bth

bth — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:08:24 +0000

regular - almost all the areas being looked at for wind are already developed in some manner - usually grazing or farming. The wind farms I visited in CA would have been in much more sensitive geography than anything in KS - an they don’t seem to have erosion problems.

By: Regular

Regular — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:53:49 +0000

I’m not grasping at straws. I merely stated the fact when you put massive amounts of construction in a previously undeveloped rural area, they should be concerned about erosion.

I’ve always been for Wind power.

Just not that annoying squeaking Windmill my grandfather used to own. :)

By: bth

bth — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:50:43 +0000

regular - then why all the grasping at straws against wind?

By: Regular

Regular — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:23:49 +0000

WTF Ben,

It started out as a conversation - then it de-generated.

You know I’m against the coal-fired plants.

What the hell, are you going senile?

By: bth

bth — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:28:52 +0000

Regular - the wind farms I have visited are not in the Flint Hills.

JMW - I think regular fears that successful wind development will hinder his favored approach - dirty coal.

By: JMWalker

JMWalker — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:05:40 +0000

Regs whole line is just another red herring, as usual. He seems to think the farmers committed to this project too stupid to allow the engineers responsible for the installation to use modern techniques meant to minimize any ground effects.

By: ghotiphaze

ghotiphaze — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:52:56 +0000

constant irrelevant comments…different geologically and topographically from South Central Kansas.

’nuff said?

By: Regular

Regular — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:51:46 +0000

Okay ghotiphaze,

You win.

You don’t want anyone to have any sort of conversation in which you can’t interrupt with your constant irrelevant comments.

It’s all your bro’ enjoy.

By: ghotiphaze

ghotiphaze — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:50:19 +0000

south of Concordia
*ducks*

By: Regular

Regular — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:48:03 +0000

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bth
Posted April 14, 2008 at 2:42 pm | Permalink

It’s funny. I ahve visited wind farms and have not seen erosion problems. However, i HAVE seen erosion problems near other kinds of developments. Seems there is a lot more water runoff from a power plant than from a turbine pad.
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Different type of soils and base Ben. Of course you know this.

The Flint hills are different geologically and topographically from South Central Kansas.

By: ghotiphaze

ghotiphaze — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:44:42 +0000

I doubt any sincerity you might have

But…I’m sincerly insincere!

By: bth

bth — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:42:17 +0000

By: Regular

Regular — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:41:51 +0000

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ghotiphaze
Posted April 14, 2008 at 2:37 pm | Permalink

Ok, Reg, I admit, you’re a tree hugging liberal commie pinko. Are you happy?
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I doubt any sincerity you might have from your past and present posts.

You just don’t have the ability to talk “straight” and be forth coming.

Antagonism is not a desired trait all the time.

By: ghotiphaze

ghotiphaze — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:40:20 +0000

BTW, you must’ve missed the way I was giving my ‘liberal friends the amens and hallelujahs on the sunflower thread.

By: ghotiphaze

ghotiphaze — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:37:44 +0000

Ok, Reg, I admit, you’re a tree hugging liberal commie pinko. Are you happy?

By: Regular

Regular — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:29:13 +0000

…or, you could just admit you were wrong and I was right to be concerned about the construction of rows and rows of wind turbines.

By: ghotiphaze

ghotiphaze — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:26:27 +0000

“schooled” on proper land erosion prevention before they plant those giant “fans.”

you gotta admit, the quote marks and the smiley face would lead one to believe you were being facetious, like the fans blowing! I thought you were being a cut-up until the quote from the EPA. That was a given to me, for any building. And on an earlier post, months ago, I stated maintenance would be low because how much would you have to pay someone to pick up dead birds? You needed someone to tell you that?

By: Regular

Regular — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:16:46 +0000

The EPA is concerned about it, why should I be concerned about it Fish?

Why are you so against me on this matter when I’m concerned about the Environment.

If one of your Lib friends had written that, you would have been giving him/her an Amen and Hallelujah.

Face it, you’re just on to be the resident non-thinking asshole that only sees the opportunity to mock others.