Drove by a large wind farm yesterday outside of Mojave ca. couple hundred windmills. None turning. No wind. In one of the windiest places in ca. great solution. people are so stupid.
I’ve driven by the huge wind farms in the Columbia River Valley (OR), Altamont Pass (Northern CA), and Palm Springs many times. It is extremely rare to see many of them turning. Frequently in the Columbia River area I’ll see four or five turning and thousands dead in their tracks.
Guess what is used to back up all those dead windmills? Fossil fuels.
You need to build TWO plants where ONE used to do - the windmills AND a backup plant. Guess what that does to costs!?
I’ve seen this for decades. All of these save-the-world wind turbines standing stock still like a field of malign flowers.
Ehat you saw were “Windless Turbines”- they don’t turn- they just sit there spoiling the view for everyone. A liberal isn’t happy unless hey spoil something for others- tH3y certainly have achieved their goal with those asinine “Wind” turbines!
And when the wind does blow, they shut them down if it is too much wind.
But the blinky red lights keep going all night long, visible for many miles.