[Campion]

Sounds like a lot of these wind turbine failure stories boil down to poor engineering, not a problem with wind turbines per se. Bearings that can't handle the torque, systems that don't have heaters to handle cold weather, etc. This is all stuff that heavy equipment manufacturers figured out decades ago. If you can build a semi that can drive to the north slope of Alaska, you can build a wind turbine that will run in Texas in the winter.

[Ozark Tom]

Wind turbines are designed to last until the subsidies run out.