Posted on 11/24/2011 10:21:06 AM PST by LRoggy
(NaturalNews) Literal beacons of the "green" energy movement, giant wind turbines have been one of the renewable energy sources of choice for the US government, which has spent billions of taxpayer dollars subsidizing their construction and use across the country. But high maintenance costs, high rates of failure, and fluctuating weather conditions that affect energy production render wind turbines expensive and inefficient, which is why more than 14,000 of them have since been abandoned.
Before government subsidies for the giant metals were cut or eliminated in many areas, wind farms were an energy boom business. But in the post-tax subsidy era, the costs of maintaining and operating wind turbines far outweighs the minimal power they generate in many areas, which has left a patchwork of wind turbine graveyards in many of the most popular wind farming areas of the US.
"Thousands of abandoned wind turbines littered the landscape of wind energy's California 'big three' locations which include Altamont Pass, Tehachapin and San Gorgonio, considered among the world's best wind sites," writes Andrew Walden of the American Thinker. "In the best wind spots on earth, over 14,000 turbines were simply abandoned. Spinning, post-industrial junk which generates nothing but bird kills."
Walden speaks, of course, about the birds, bats, and other air creatures that routinely get tangled in and killed by wind turbine propellers. And as far as the "post-industrial junk" language, well, if it costs too much to run the machines in the first place, then it definitely costs too much to uproot and remove them post-construction.
This whole wind energy mess just further illustrates how the American people have been played by their elected officials who bought into the "global warming" hysteria that spawned the push for wind energy in the first place. And now that the renewable energy tax subsidies are gradually coming to an end in some places, the true financial and economic viability, or lack of wind energy, is on display for the world to see.
"It is all about the tax subsidies," writes Don Surber of the Charleston Daily Mail. "The blades churn until the money runs out. If an honest history is written about the turn of the 21st century, it will include a large, harsh chapter on how fears about global warming were overplayed for profit by corporations."
Sources for this article include:
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurbe...
http://toryaardvark.com/2011/11/17/...
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“just like sister ethanol”
No I was thinking more along the lines of mtbe. The gas companies were forced by the epa to use this. Now the America taxpayer is picking up the cost for the clean up. Of this very dangerous substance. All in the name of saving the planet.
All you’d need is a gas axe to severe the bolts at the base on the tower on a calm day.
Then wait for a windy day to push it over. Whammo, jackpot!
Send the old blades to the islands. They will build hurrican proof shacks.
Yes many farmers earn some good money by leasing the land.
Thanks LRoggy.
Take away the gubbermint cheese, and they implode, like most of the nations recycling or public transit programs would were it not for a government using the tax collector to take from the productive to keep the dead alive.
However, Margret Thatcher put it best. “Eventually you run out of other peoples money,” and then like the Soviet Union, Greece, or the US eventually (even if we ignore it now the day of reckoning will come) the tower of BullShit will implode on itself.
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Altamont Pass: Detroit for wind turbines.
PING!
Having trouble confirming the article. Altamont Pass wind farm, known for killing Golden Eagles is reportedly replacing the turbines.
The govenment subsidy issue would be an interesting story.
No, it’s a believable story
future giant bird houses?
for the birds that aren’t chopped up
I'm appalled at business whose business plan consists solely of manipulating government ignorance, or using government as a club to beat their competitors instead of out-competing them. So I mostly agree with your post with two slight exceptions.
First, we normally want to hold government to a higher standard because they exist off tax dollars as opposed to making their money honestly off willing customers like a business. That distinction obviously doesn't apply in this case, but the instinct is ingrained.
Second, the tone of the statement in the article is that it's corporations that are primarily to blame rather than the only entity that has the ability to fiddle with the tax code, the government. It's as if, if you told the author the government was intimately involved in and bore a large share of the responsibility for this thing he doesn't like, he wouldn't believe you.
You’re welcome. Good to hear from you again. Hope your move went well and you’re all settled in. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Doesn’t GE make wind turbines?
On a recent drive down I55 in Illinois, there were fields of windmills as far as the eye could see. I commented that in about 10 years, they will be fields of rusting hulks.....
The cost of dismantling and transporting them to the recycling facility would probably outweigh any profit.
Rusting remains of failed economic meddling. Has sort of a 80's Soviet / Atlas Shrugged feel about it.
Yep! lol. :-)
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