[Popman]

If you go to the source article linked article has this link: http://www.wind-works.org/articles/99rush.html that claims 15,000 windmills were constructed back in the 80 and 90.

I would assume they have outlived their life and sit rusting away

[Redmen4ever]

Clean up is sometimes a problem in the real world. A strip mining company, for example. has to clean up after it has removed the minerals it has mined. This involves filling in the hole, disposing of the slag (these two are usually connected) and re-contouring the land.

Green projects shouldn’t have their own set of rules. They need to cover all their costs, including clean up.

In addition to removing these cylinders, the batteries that many of them have need to be carefully disposed or possibly re-cycled.

Oh, the “school solution” when there are clean up costs is to have the company post a bond, equal to the present value of the expected clean up cost.

[org.whodat]

They will be taken down and replaced with sate of the art, just a matter of time.

[MindBender26]

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