Billy_Bob
Diamond Member
The Great California Scam! Wind Turbines Prove to be a Huge Flop!
Here comes the garbage wave... Wind-turbines crashing and burning, companies going bankrupt and guess who is holding the bag to clean up the failure?
The tax payer.. As if all the massive subsidies were not punishment enough..
Here comes the garbage wave... Wind-turbines crashing and burning, companies going bankrupt and guess who is holding the bag to clean up the failure?
The tax payer.. As if all the massive subsidies were not punishment enough..
California had the “big three” of wind farm locations — Altamont Pass, Tehachapi, and San Gorgonio, considered the world’s best wind sites. California’s wind farms, almost 80% of the world’s wind generation capacity ceased to generate even more quickly than Kamaoa Wind Farm in Hawaii. There are five other abandoned wind farms in Hawaii. When they are abandoned, getting the turbines removed is a major problem. They are highly unsightly, and they are huge, and that’s a lot of material to get rid of.
Unfortunately the same areas that are good for siting wind farms are a natural pass for migrating birds. Altamont’s turbines have been shut down four months out of every year for migrating birds after environmentalists filed suit.
It’s a flop folks. It’s been a flop and California taxpayers have been paying for it. Worse, federal dollars have subsidized so YOU are paying for it. YOU will continue to pay for up keep, replacement, and cleanup.