Saturday, November 26, 2011

America has 14,000 abandoned wind turbines

Lee County, Illinois
Wind power is easy, right? Just build some windmills--and the electricity is free. Wrong, wrong, wrong. The turbines themselves are expensive, and they break down. Wind power is not a feasible source of power without federal subsidies--and that money is free, right?

Say Anything reports that America has 14,000 abandoned wind turbines. They're like scarecrows, only they don't scare crows or Climate Change Believers.

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  1. Mike Barnard10:06 AM

    14,000 in the USA? Even Andrew Walden, the anti-wind activist that invented the number only claimed it was world-wide.

    The reality is that there might be 1650 inactive wind turbines right now representing perhaps 0.1% of the total wind generating capacity.

    http://www.quora.com/How-many-permanently-inactive-wind-turbines-are-there-world-wide/answer/Mike-Barnard

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