AC wind turbines
I was stunned to see wind turbines in the immediate vicinity.
Is this abortion real, or just a photoshopped nightmare scenario?
Wind turbines coexisting with resort casinos?
WTF?
since the planet is boiling over due to global warming we need those big fans to cool us off a bit.....Quote: MrVI stumbled across this picture of what I assume to be present day Atlantic City.
I was stunned to see wind turbines in the immediate vicinity.
Is this abortion real, or just a photoshopped nightmare scenario?
Wind turbines coexisting with resort casinos?
WTF?
Quote: MrVWind turbines coexisting with resort casinos? WTF?
Tax dodge, I guess. They make noise, kill birds, etc. but they bring in tax credits or "green" credits whatever those might be. They don't really generate much juice when the wind is high and they only generate juice in peaks and pulses that local equipment might not be able to tolerate but somewhere politicians decided they were good.
Quote: treetopbuddythe hoopleheads won't be happy until there's a windmill on every corner........eventually the world will run out of birds
Not every corner. Just the ones where no powerful Democrats have to see them.
In fact, I put the windfarm on my Atlantic City Casinos and Points Of Interest Google map, although I couldn't find any evidence of tours.
Yes, the abortions are real. New Jersey is a pro-choice state and we like it that way. I call them the whirligigs and I know that I'm "there yet" when I pass them on my way into town down route US-30. As we like to shout as we pass by, "Let The Fetus Fly!!"Quote: MrVI stumbled across this picture of what I assume to be present day Atlantic City.
I was stunned to see wind turbines in the immediate vicinity.
Is this abortion real, or just a photoshopped nightmare scenario?
Wind turbines coexisting with resort casinos?
WTF?
On a serious note, where did that picture come from? I took one from the Showboat that looks exactly like that. Now I'm going to have to dig it out of the camera archive.
Quote: vendman1I too would swear I've taken that same picture from either the Taj or the Showboat. Definitely it was taken from somewhere on the north end of the boardwalk. I have inquired at several of the casinos and looked online for tour info on the "wind-farm" ...but have never been able to get any info. I would like to see it up close. There is a walking path that runs behind Borgata and Harrahs that gets you about as close as I think you can get. You are close enough, that you can sometimes hear the blades on a windy day. They are really very close to the Borgata. But the wetlands are between you and the windmills so you can't walk directly there. Even if you could I assume you couldn't get too close. They must be fenced off or something for security reasons.
Simple google search for atlantic city windmills gets you this:
http://www.atlanticcitynj.com/visit/DirectoryCliDetail.aspx?CliID=23701
"The Atlantic County Utilities Authority is home to the state’s first commercial wind farm located in Atlantic City. Tours are available Monday-Friday. Reservations needed".
Wind Farms @ Atlantic County Utilities Authority
Route 30
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
Phone: 609-272-6950
Quote: 1BBThe turbines have been there for at least five years that I can remember. They're at the sewer plant.
They became "operational" in Dec. 2005
Well if you want to bring your recyclables there, they will be happy to take them. No fences, no secrets, they even have a web site. I just called them to see if I could get a tour but they're closed for the day.Quote: vendman1They must be fenced off or something for security reasons.
Quote: 1BBThe turbines have been there for at least five years that I can remember. They're at the sewer plant.
The area was a wasteland, the former AC landfill, and was turned into the police firing range, among other pursuits, for people who remember driving up to Harrah's and Trump's Castle.
Quote: onenickelmiracleGreen is hard to pull off, but it beats the alternative, living in a post apocalyptic world where your neighbor eats you for dinner or vice versa. Billions are here only, because of oil and there is an infinite amount of energy and minerals in space which can be had. It would be a shame to lose society before it can ever get to that point of taking advantage of space. Being lured by bigger oil profits with no end game is not smart.
When there is profit another way it will be had. As to society, IMHO mankind has about 500-1,000 years left before we go extinct. The next 50-100 will be fine, but after that it will begin to fall apart. Population decline will soon hit most western nations, leaving then too underpopulated to maintain their infrastructure (see Detroit, Gary, etc for what is coming.) When they fall what is holding up the rest of the world will fall, and you will see a decline similar to after the end of the Roman Empire.
Quote: AZDuffmanWhen there is profit another way it will be had. As to society, IMHO mankind has about 500-1,000 years left before we go extinct. The next 50-100 will be fine, but after that it will begin to fall apart. Population decline will soon hit most western nations, leaving then too underpopulated to maintain their infrastructure (see Detroit, Gary, etc for what is coming.) When they fall what is holding up the rest of the world will fall, and you will see a decline similar to after the end of the Roman Empire.
Luckily the robots will arrive just in time to compensate for falling birthrates.
Huzzah!! To our robot overlords!! Huzzah!!Quote: sodawaterLuckily the robots will arrive just in time to compensate for falling birthrates.
Quote: sodawaterLuckily the robots will arrive just in time to compensate for falling birthrates.
So they say, but I don't see it helping most of the problem.
I'm nearly certain that word salad was supposed to mean something other than what I think it meant. What was that about getting to space? There are fossil fuels in space?Quote: onenickelmiracleNothing beats the productivity of oil is the problem and there will never be anything as profitable. It can be used to maintain society by preparing it for it's loss. Once you can get to space, there are more fossil fuels than ever used before and the party can start again.
Quote: s2dbakerI'm nearly certain that word salad was supposed to mean something other than what I think it meant. What was that about getting to space? There are fossil fuels in space?
Am I confused thinking methane is considered a fossil fuel? If I remember correctly, there are moons made of it in our solar system and we just have to find a way to get to it and take it. On oil, it is great, but there is never a reason to replace it when it is available. When oil is too hard to get, it is too late to build an infrastructure to live without it.
https://www.acua.com/Projects/Jersey-Atlantic-Wind-Farm.aspx
"Located at our Wastewater Treatment Plant in Atlantic City, NJ, the Jersey-Atlantic Wind Farm consists of five, 380-foot turbines capable of producing a combined 7.5 megawatts of power – enough energy to power approximately 2,500 homes!
The power produced, in conjunction with our solar energy project, is used to operate the wastewater treatment plant, with any excess energy provided to the main power grid.
Opened in December 2005, the wind farm is the first in the state. As an eastern, urban, coastal, industrial, onshore, multi-turbine wind farm, it is one that is unique to the world.
The wind farm has saved ACUA more than $6.9 million in energy costs and has prevented more than 70,359 metric tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere since its opening. "
