HeyBub wrote:
dpb wrote:
HeyBub wrote:
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Well, sure. People in Oklahoma are used to windmills, albeit much
smaller ones. Windmills are everywhere.
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A windmill here and there is a far cry from several hundred wind
generating turbines.

For what they do, you only need one here and one there.

Besides, sometimes there's not enough wind to turn two windmills.

And, altho beside the point, the number of windmills is rapidly
dwindling as there is a use for solar that is catching on pretty
quickly where they haven't gone to submersible grid power (or in many
places they're making the move to solar from the grid). Water tables
are lower and windmills require a lot of maintenance.

Windmills require NO maintenance (except to turn the vane so they'll quit
pumping).


ANYTHING with moving parts requires maintenance. For that matter,
anything that sits outside, moving parts or not, eventually requires
maintenance. The trick is to make those required upkeep chores as cheap
and easy as possible.

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