{"id":214,"date":"2007-07-14T01:50:32","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T01:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/not-enough-windmill-parts\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:58","slug":"not-enough-windmill-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/not-enough-windmill-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Not enough windmill parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right off\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/turbines.jpg\" alt=\"windmill parts\">Almost everyday there is another alternative energy news item in the Wall Street Journal.  On July 9th, they are anguishing about the lack of windmill parts.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s go on a thought exercise.  Imagine, if you will, that this were instead an article about oil production and a shortage of doohickeys that were necessary for oil production, what would the tone of the article be?  This is great for business!  A new industry and new jobs will be created that will foster economic growth, competition and innovation.  But, now, the focus is on the lack of parts and how complicated a wind turbine is and firms from other countries are going to buy out small manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes, there are 8,000 parts in a wind turbine.  I wonder how many parts there are to a coal-fired turbine, a gasoline-powered car, or even a high-tech mountain bike.  I am sure these are also in the thousands (maybe not the mountain bike).  Surely no one at the Wall Street Journal is complaining about this complexity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;May you live in interesting times&#8221; is an old Chinese curse, but for each interesting time there are many exciting opportunities. I am sure many people will find those opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost everyday there is another alternative energy news item in the Wall Street Journal. On July 9th, they are anguishing about the lack of windmill parts. Let&#8217;s go on a thought exercise. Imagine, if you will, that this were instead an article about oil production and a shortage of doohickeys that were necessary for oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-energy","category-wind-energy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10078,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/10078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}