[Fzob]

Agreed- I was on a business trip from San Diego to Mexicali a few years back to inspect some equipment, and we drove through windmill farms along the US border with perhaps a thousand wind mills - Maybe 10% were spinning. Destroyed a beautiful landscape

[ProtectOurFreedom]

This spring, my eldest daughter treated me and her boyfriend to an excursion train ride on the Western Railway Museum located in Solano County near Suisun City. It is magnificent California country. The eastern side of the rail line is ruined with wind machines. Fortunately, the western side of the tracks is still pristine rural ranch land. I could just cry every time I see something like that.

I drive between the California Bay Area and North Idaho a couple times a year. When you are going north on US 97 in Oregon, about 15 miles south of the Columbia River you start running into windmills. Thousands of them. As you said, frequently 90% are not turning. What a HUGE waste of investment in an asset that runs at 30% capacity factor at best. Without government subsidies, nobody in their right mind would invest in something that doesn't produce output 70% of the time. The Columbia River Gorge is (er, was) magnificent and is covered in the machines. I grieve for our kids and grandkids who will never know those once-magnificent, unspoiled vistas. I despise the wind companies, wind turbine manufacturers, and government people who are doing this.

The damn wind farms are spreading throughout the Palouse hills region of Eastern Washington state. Talk about another magnificent region about to be ruined!

[Fzob]

Truly idiotic path. Locally, there is a solar panel farm nearly completed using 300 acres of prime farmland to generate 30 MW. A few years ago, I installed a 5 MW CHP plant on about 1/2 acre. runs 24 hours a day.