John Lee Pettimore;
Out of the top 26 wind turbine blade manufactures, only 3 are in the United States, that means the majority of these blades have to be floated across oceans. It takes 30-40 days burning approx. 40 tons of fuel per day or 400,000 gallons one way.
Green energy,,, yep!
In a province with brutal winters like Alberta, you need rock solid energy security. Power outages at -40 degrees will kill people. People are beginning to realize how dangerous dependence on wind and solar can be.
When money is totally wasted as in wind or solar energy, the pain is less when Canadian wages build the damn things. Pissing the money away in China makes us weaker and our enemy stronger.
Poor productivity across our economy comes from spending lots of money for no benefit, instead of spending small amounts of money for big benefit.
All that fake value comes at a real cost.
Why aren’t they building them in CA … where we fashion the world’s best surfboards out of foam and fiberglass? Come on Gavin …
Then there wouldn’t be a middleman.
Because you can’t have natural gas powered curing ovens? that you need special permits and remediation for VOCs?
There are restrictions on the VOCs emitted from the polymer resins used to manufacture the turbine blades. Also the carbon and glass fibres used in the blades are under CA Prop 65 meaning you might get cancer or some dreaded disease if you inhale a turbine blade. So that might be the reason they aren’t made in California
Thank you all for certifying how anti business and anti industrialization CA truly is. And soon … the Richmond and Martinez oil refineries will be taxed and lawsuited out of business. Then we will have no option but to drive a ChiCom/Mexican EV. … powered by imported blades spinning all over CA … spoiling the environment
Jayzuz!!
McGuinty promised that turbine blade manufacturing would put Ontario in the forefront of the world manufacturing of wind turbines and provide those highly vaunted and sought after clean green environmental jobs. Of course once the subsidies were frittered away they closed the plant and hightailed it back to Europe
I remember setting up a bunch of servers there way back when. Don’t ever recall seeing any manufacturing being done in that massive plant. They never placed any service calls for the servers either, so I have a pretty good idea they were never used.
And, the damned things can’t be recycled. So, we’re importing more garbage. What a joke!
Almost as if we lost a war that nobody bothered to tell us about.
That, or the political corruption goes far deeper than election interference.
We did lose a war that most of us didn”t know we were in.
Purpose-built ships to transport them? There is also an airplane made strictly for that.
From that ship straight to these landfills
https://www.gettyimages.ca/photos/wind-turbine-blade-landfill
That is one ugly ship.
Environmentally friendly, no doubt. All eco vehicles are ugly. It must be a law somewhere.
Repurpose six blades as oars and save a pile of fuel.
Even ships that transport them are teh ghey.
I keep waiting for people to catch up, so far it hasn’t happened, at least not in numbers adequate to graph.
A gallon of diesel can run a generator and produce about 14kWh at best. So just to offset the transportation fuel investment a wind turbine would have to produce 5,600,000 kWh / 170 blades per fully loaded ship X 3 blades per assembled turbine = 98,824 kWh per functional wind turbine. The best and largest horizontal axis wind turbines can produce 26,000 kWh per day, so figure about 4 days of perfect conditions to pay off the fuel transportation cost per turbine. So that’s not really all that bad. Assuming perfect conditions.
Good luck getting one to run long enough and well enough to offset the cost of building and installing and maintaining it.
Oh and notice that the 170 blades / 3 blades per turbine is not a whole number, so this ship will have a few spares aboard or several empty slots. Those empty slots raise the transportation cost per blade.