john101477
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Hello my name is John and I am from Northern California. At the moment I am working in Idaho building wind turbans. I am an outdoor nut to I am really digging this Idaho stuff. My truck is a 2006 green/tan ford f250 ccsb
Hello from Southern Idaho (for now)
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Stroked68
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Welcome! Best site to be on! You have the job that I would love to have. Workin on big green machines. Wonder if one of those turbines would look good in my back yard? haha I went through Russel KS and there were 100's of them. You could live inside one of them haha.
WD40
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Welcome to SSD.com, John, glad you found us, I have a 06, 6.0 F-350 CC, DRW and love it so far after 61900 miles.
Doug
Doug
02SilverStroke
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Welcome aboard!!!! Love the truck!!!
john101477
SDD Junior Member
Thanks guys i am just getting oriented with the site so far. I would like to see more of the accessories and pictures of the beasts that we drive but I am sure I will find that here some place.
Stroked68 - building wind turbines is ok but requires an incredible sacrifice. Most of the companies stacking them are 50-70 hr jobs and usually a long long way from home. As for being "green", depends on your idea of that word. not that I am Mr. Econut or anything but it takes a LOT of fossil fuels and other pollutants to build and stack these things not to mention the computer chips and such that goes into them. I helped to build 134 GE towers in 4 months. many of the components are built over seas, Brazil was a major source for the ones we put up out here, where labor is cheap and they can really stick it to the work force. To be honest I have a hard time sleeping at night because I know that the money that was paid for these can hardly be considered legit. Similar to the trans-continental railroad, a blank check has been written and no one is responsible. Millions of dollars are being made by people that donated the minimum because of the governments desire to meet a quota. From that angle it is really sickening, even if the outcome is green energy.
atk
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Welcome to SDD....
Stroked68
This is FORD Country
Well of course I dont know THAT aspect of the wind turbine. I do know they make a lot of electricity and once they are up dont burn anything so thats green to me haha. I understand what you are sayin though. Maybe I will just get one of those smaller ones that are still a few grand. Just enough to power my home and maybe sell some back to the companies hehe. When i get my new toy hauler Im gettin a wind turbin and a bank of big solar panels. I still like to roll coal and burn 91octane though haha. Cant forget tire smoke too!
john101477
SDD Junior Member
hahaha yeah the smaller turbans are pretty cool. The GE's we just set up put out enough energy to power a small town like I am from. According to GE, these towers will pay for themselves in less than 2 years even with maintenance. the IWP partners are supposed to get 176 million dollars if they get this project done by the new year which will easily happen. cost to construct the towers was roughly 74 million (includes profit for contractors and subcontractors but not cost of turbans them selves)
If you wanna make $$$ buy a chunk of crappy windy land and lease it to one of the wind companies. between $5000 and $10,000 a month depending on land size and number of turbans that can be put up.
WD40
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(When i get my new toy hauler Im gettin a wind turbin and a bank of big solar panels.)
You will never get your money back from one of these, I see them all the time and they talk about their 6 to 10 bucks a mo power bill, but they set around in a hot RV because they are to cheap to run the AC to cool it off.
Doug
You will never get your money back from one of these, I see them all the time and they talk about their 6 to 10 bucks a mo power bill, but they set around in a hot RV because they are to cheap to run the AC to cool it off.
Doug
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John,
Welcome to the site. Very familiar with what you are doing, I just designed and am currently getting constructed the O&M facility for Idaho Wind. (and coincidently, fought the fire that tried to destroy the wind park). You guys have been busting your rears, those are going up like crazy. Congrats for your hard work, stay warm out there.
Barrett
Welcome to the site. Very familiar with what you are doing, I just designed and am currently getting constructed the O&M facility for Idaho Wind. (and coincidently, fought the fire that tried to destroy the wind park). You guys have been busting your rears, those are going up like crazy. Congrats for your hard work, stay warm out there.
Barrett