It took two years to run into the
One finding: The 1 MW wind turbine featured in draft blueprints cannot become a reality. "The roads won't support it. You can't get a crane large enough out there to support it." To build and maintain a wind turbine that size, construction workers would need to employ a 300-ton crane. To keep the turbine running, the massive crane would also need to stay in the country for repairs.
So the Army Corps is working to refocus draft plans to include fewer than two dozen smaller 10-kilowatt wind turbines - though they will not equal the power of the 1 MW wind turbine.
Overambitious goals? I wonder where they came from?
Building about 100 10-kilowatt wind turbines to create equivalent power appears to be out of the question due to the difficulty and expense of constructing a large wind farm across such a rugged site.
Other alternative energy plans are also being scrapped after re-evaluating the needs of the Afghan people and the realities of the site.
My tax dollars at work. Meanwhile, my grandchildren's future was hocked to bail out banks.