The funny thing is that in the Northwest we have been blessed with one of the only “alternative energy sources”, hydropower that really makes any sense. Yet the idiot environmentalists around here have forced many that were built over a hundred years ago to be removed to “save” the fish. Even back then many hatcheries were built to mitigate, and “fish ladders” were built with dams to preserve runs on major rivers.
Nothing makes me madder than to see money wasted on these hairbrained bird and bat killing “wind farms”. Human stupidity hasn’t changed much in all of recorded history.
Each one of those “Windmills” costs a couple of million dollars. In terms of energy produced they can NEVER recover that cost alone.Maintenance, insurance, market, land aquisition etc, . Basically that energy cannot be stored and must be used somewhere as it is produced. At the present level of the technology it is nothing but a scam.When you see those windmills sitting idle you are watching a multi-million dollar factory effectively shuttered, producing no product. Who can afford to do that? Smile taxpayer. IOW to see who benefits...follow the money.