The Weather Channel has a new series, “Turbine Cowboys”, on Wind turbine technicians, done sort of along the lines of “Ice Road Truckers” and “The Deadliest Catch”.
Turns out manly men love wind turbines, and working on them. High testosterone cliff hangers with a hard rock score.
More clips at the link.
Wow. Men who find strength and courage without AR-15s and AK-47s.
You know: The Real Deal.
Who’d a thunk it?
This would be high up on my list of best jobs in the world too… 🙂
Again I Say
Yup! When there was ore in the mines we needed “Riggers” too! An underground miners! love Wind Power! Learn America! learn to move where the wind power is, build your lives close by, to prevent transmission losses, but most of all realize this renewable, perpetual, eternal, Gift from God, is domestic, clean and free and will not harm you! Intermittent? Somewhat, needs maintenance? Of course! But then humanity needs to slow the pace, and live a more “Off Grid” modern homesteaders lifestyle – After all, the raging Glory Days of the Cheap Oil Age begot only a Third World Detroit City? It fell in a decade? Do we really need more of that? Re: Californian cities bankrupting as we speak? Understand that: (This is my favorite cut and paste!)
“Had the $650 billions+ spent on Iraq, been spent on conventional Solar/Thermal development of South Western U.S.A. : today Americans would receive a “return on investment”, in place of horrendous tax rates to service unpayable war debt to China. Americans would be gainfully working, using this renewable, perpetual, eternal, God given domestic electricity source –
(oil wells do go dry, the oil really doesn’t spring forth from &Allah’s-ass as some seem to believe either – the Sun never stops shining, Wind blows forever, tides still after eons back and forth, back and forth,)
– to compete in world markets with cost effective products, and much less foreign oil would be imported. This is the lost “opportunity cost” for having Saddam’s scrotum on the Bushes mantlepiece? Shiite eh!” P.S. Rumors that Saddam was immortal? Not true either, how old would he be today?
Denmark built enough Wind Mills – so they are now a net exporter of electricity to Europe! Stinking tiny little itty-bitty island! So small they walk everywhere! And they live for free! on the wind income! no radioactive homocidal wastes piling up! no expensive waste disposal problems! Are they stupid or what? Meanwhile Japan, Fuckoshima, had American designed enriched uranium “bomb factory” styled reactors – and big troubles! Both island nations – difference in logic? www,theoildrum.com/node/4971 tells of the error of judgment made by U.S. in 1990’s – a must read for concerned humanity.