T.Boone Pickens has lost his wind.

[Nbadan]

Wind farms will continue to grow without Pickens....anyone driven through west TX recently?

[sam1617]

"one line off of a wind tubine costs $300,000 per mile. "

Seems to me to be a specific fact, such things are easily sourced.

If johnsmith says it is from personal knowledge of a bid he was involved with, that is good enough for me.

I can take people at their word, especially since I have no reason to doubt them.

In that case, there is a new law that says that anyone who posts on Spurstalk and has the username RandomGuy has to give me a million dollars

You have no reason to doubt me!

[Wild Cobra]

"one line off of a wind tubine costs $300,000 per mile. "

Well, if someone is only using "one line" meaning "one wire" then it should not be acceptable practices. That means you are using a ground return also. You still need two wires for a proper transfer. Three phase is so much better, and only uses three wires. Look at any power pole. Always three wires, right?

Maybe he meant three wires at $300,000 each. Notice I did specify for the one mile in my earlier post, three miles of wire.

Electrical transmission of AC uses three phase power. You have three phases, separated by 120 degrees, which cancels out magnetic losses.

If someone is contracting only one phase for an electrical grid, especially a green electrical grid, that is absolutely laughable.

Three-phase electric power is a common method of alternating-current electric power transmission. It is a type of polyphase system, and is the most common method used by electric power distribution grids worldwide to distribute power. It is also used to power large motors and other large loads. A three-phase system is generally more economical than others because it uses less conductor material to transmit electric power than equivalent single-phase or two-phase systems at the same voltage.

In a three-phase system, three circuit conductors carry three alternating currents (of the same frequency) which reach their instantaneous peak values at different times. Taking one conductor as the reference, the other two currents are delayed in time by one-third and two-thirds of one cycle of the electrical current. This delay between "phases" has the effect of giving constant power transfer over each cycle of the current, and also makes it possible to produce a rotating magnetic field in an electric motor.

[Winehole23]

Actually:

"PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The nickname "Little Beirut" has stuck to Portland since it was first coined by the staff of former President Bush after violent protests during his visits to Oregon in the early 1990s, and the reputation remains strong as his son prepares to return more than a decade later."

Seeds of the anti-NWO cluster, facing down the imperial stormtroopers...of Portland/Oregon?