uncensored.co.nz/2011/12/06/14000-abandoned-wind-turbines-in-the-usa/

The US experience with wind farms has left over 14,000 wind turbines abandoned and slowly decaying, in most instances the turbines are just left as symbols of a dying Climate Religion, nowhere have the Green Environmentalists appeared to clear up their mess or even complain about the abandoned wind farms.

Any site promoting wakefield is totally full of rubbish. I wouldn't believe a word.

I saw a chemtrails sub-section on the right. It was at that point that I thought to myself "seems legit"

gibberjoe said...


SOOOOOOOOOOO, what's the beef dinsdale.....?????[}:)]

There are also 100's of thousands of abandoned houses..........

and a space station or two , or more, even.

That's just how they do things over there

I remember reading there was 18 million vacant homes (some new just built) in the USA at the hight of the GFC. That's probably more vacant homes than homeless people. Perfect example of the failure of the market ideology.

cisco said...

Well have 14000 wind turbines in the USA been abandoned or not??

Anybody??

I looked into it for you.

Wow... that story, repeated word for word, takes you on a tour of all the woo sites. Home of the PM33's of the world.

I did find the original though, and apparently it's more or less true.

There are 5 large abandoned wind farm sites that they mention. These were built in the 80s using rudimentary windmills compared to today's tech. They had a 20-30yr life span. That life is over.



For whatever reason (companies bought/sold/folded, weak legislation, etc) their gov't didn't force them to clean up after themselves. At the very least they should lock them and/or remove the blades, but that costs money and no one will do it unless forced.

From what I've read there was a wind power boom in the USA in the 1970s after the oils shocks. As Kiteboy has written above the wind power tech back then failed to deliver. They were inefficient and failed to deliver what they were promised. Also under the Reagan administration the quotas for renewable energy produced in America were eliminated.

Personally I feel anyone or any company who wants to produce and install wind turbines should be allowed to do so as long as their neighbours are not realistically damaged. If they are they should be compensated.

However at the same time I don't think its fair for wind power to be subsidised by the taxpayer. Subsidise encourage inefficiencies and rent seeking. For example the father of the British PM collects over one thousand pounds rent per week from wind turbines placed on his estate, care of the British tax payer. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of British children live in poverty.

log man said...

Yes ......and what would Jesus do in this situation?

Was not Jesus a false messiah

Little Jon said...

Did the oil industry clean up after exxon or BP?

Are the taxpayer subsidies as big as the subsidis for the nuclear indsustry?

Can fix the problem of rent seeking by having Govt ownership rather than private ownership. The ideology of private ownership is part of the free market ideology. What we need is fair markets not free markets.

Right on Comrade Little Jon !