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If they're no longer working whoever put them there should pay whatever it costs to remove them from the landscape.
If they're no longer working whoever put them there should pay whatever it costs to remove them from the landscape.
The following article is cross-posted from the Barnard on Wind blog with permission of the author, Mike Barnard.
Anti-wind lobbyists claim more than 1 in 20 wind turbines permanently inactive; they're wrong, as usual.
There’s an anti-wind energy myth floating around that refuses to die. The most recent sighting was in the official policy of an Australian political party, the Democratic Labour Party of Australia. [11] What is the myth?
That there are 14,000 permanently inactive wind turbines out there somewhere.
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Tory Aardvark, the climate-change denying bastion of disinformation, likes the U.S.-only version, although its blog entry quotes the origination of the myth which talks about the world-wide number, so Aardvark manages to get it wrong twice in one post. [12] This level of inaccuracy is fairly typical of that anonymous blog, so it isn’t surprising.
... not really. I'm not certain where your website is getting it's abandoned turbine numbers from, but this arises from company-specific problems, not the industry "falling apart." What's not widely understood is that wind power is still an emerging technology. The efficacy of wind is increasing every year and older turbines are made less and less cost effective each year they're in service.Apparently this whole wind power thing is falling apart. I can't even imagine how many tax payer dollars have been wasted on this boondoggle and these rusting hulks littering the landscape and killing endangered birds.
Wind companies operate like any other industry. You have some industries that go above and beyond what's necessary to operate great companies, and then you have others that dump chemicals in the local river in the middle of the night so that they don't have to spend the disposal costs.If they're no longer working whoever put them there should pay whatever it costs to remove them from the landscape.
Apparently this whole wind power thing is falling apart. I can't even imagine how many tax payer dollars have been wasted on this boondoggle and these rusting hulks littering the landscape and killing endangered birds.
"The symbol of Green renewable energy, our saviour from the non existent problem of Global Warming, abandoned wind farms are starting to litter the planet as globally governments cut the subsidies taxes that consumers pay for the privilege of having a very expensive power source that does not work every day for various reasons like it’s too cold or the wind speed is too high.
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"
" it is in California where the impact of past mandates and subsidies is felt most strongly. Thousands of abandoned wind turbines littered the landscape of wind energy’s California “big three” locations—Altamont Pass, Tehachapi (above), and San Gorgonio—considered among the world’s best wind sites…
California’s wind farms— comprising about 80% of the world’s wind generation capacity—ceased to generate much more quickly than Kamaoa. In the best wind spots on earth, over 14,000 turbines were simply abandoned. Spinning, post-industrial junk which generates nothing but bird kills…”
“It’s a bubble which bursts as soon as the government subsidies end” therein lies a lesson that is going be learnt by those that sought to make fortunes out of tax payer subsidies, the whole renewables industry of solar, wind and biomass is just an artificial bubble incapable of surviving without subsides from governments and tax payers which many businesses and NGO’s like WWF, FoE and Greenpeace now think is their god given right, as the money is going on Green Climate Religion approved clean energy.
The Green evangelists who push so hard for these wind farms, as usual have not thought the whole idea through, no surprises for a left agenda like Climate Change, which like all things Green and socialist is just a knee jerk reaction:
The problem with wind farms when they are abandoned is getting the turbines removed, as usual there are non Green environmentalists to be seen:
14000 Abandoned Wind Turbines In The USA | Tory Aardvark
Seems to be working great in Iowa, maybe we need to study why it has been so successful there.
State Wind Energy Statistics: Iowa
Iowa Wind Energy Association
If they're no longer working whoever put them there should pay whatever it costs to remove them from the landscape.
WIND-WORKS: Debunking Anti-Wind Myth of 14000 Abandoned Wind Turbines in California
Ha....you guys beat me to it.
The OP's post is crap.
I can't even open his link at work (lunch break) because it's blocked. Some credible source that must be. :roll:
I was just about to post that when In saw yours. It is true that the wind energy industry is not the great solution some have made of it for political gain, no names need be mentioned Barrack Obama, but the original OP wasn't even supported within it's own text. This Tory Aardvark didn't even bother to cite references or quotes, no details but used an urban myth to outright lie.
That certainly is no better than the propaganda those who have used wind power for personal political gain...no names mentioned.
Renewable energy is booming, growing about 200% in the last 5 years.
Many states have a sizable portion of generation from wind.
Not only that, but solar is growing at a faster rate.
How'd they reach this magical number of 14,000? The link to the source is dead.
I really don't care.
This has no bearing on the actual numbers but I can tell you the story of one particular wind turbine in my area.
There is a large piece of state land just off the highway which I take to and from work every day. About 20 years ago they built a big Department of Natural Resources complex on it and about 10 years ago they built a State Highway Patrol complex on it. As part of the plan, the state put a big wind turbine on the site for power generation. It worked for about a month and then something happened. They finally got it fixed about a year later but that lasted only a short time. Since that thing has been in place it has functioned for a total of about 3 months and it has not turned even one revolution in over 4 years now.
I'm not trying to suggest that this is indicative of wind power in general but as far as this particular wind turbine goes? It is one giant eyesore and one giant waste of taxpayer money.
If they're no longer working whoever put them there should pay whatever it costs to remove them from the landscape.
If these turbines would evolve at the same pace those rockets did there wouldn't be an issue. This technology seems to be evolving at a glacial pace. It's almost 2015. What advancements have there been in the past 10 years?When NASA started developing rockets, most blew up on the launchpad. Fortunately, they didn't give up on rocket technology.
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