Friday, November 25, 2011

Thousands Of Wind Turbines Now Abdoned Metal Junk

'Literal beacons of the "green" energy movement, giant wind turbines have been one of the renewable energy sources of choice for the US government, which has spent billions of taxpayer dollars subsidizing their construction and use across the country. But high maintenance costs, high rates of failure, and fluctuating weather conditions that affect energy production render wind turbines expensive and inefficient, which is why more than 14,000 of them have since been abandoned.

Before government subsidies for the giant metals were cut or eliminated in many areas, wind farms were an energy boom business. But in the post-tax subsidy era, the costs of maintaining and operating wind turbines far outweighs the minimal power they generate in many areas, which has left a patchwork of wind turbine graveyards in many of the most popular wind farming areas of the US.'

NOTE: These are NOT clean, NOT Green, and NOT Cheap, there are no contractual agreements to remove monstrosities, and when the money runs out, and it is running out, the greedy land owners are rightfully left with the mess. Everyone else sadly is still left with the environmental degradation

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