All that money to erect them so they can kill an unknown number of birds and they don’t last all that long? Who knew? [Maybe the companies that foisted them on us?]
From Center of the American Experiment’s web site: the National Renewable Energy Laboratory says the useful life of a wind turbine is only 20 years.
In contrast to wind, coal, natural gas, and nuclear plants can run for a very long time. Coal and natural gas plants can easily run for 50 years, and nuclear plants can be updated and retrofitted to run for 60 years. This has profound implications for the cost of electricity on a per megawatt hour basis that seemingly no one is talking about.
Much more about this @ Exposed: A Key Element of the Wind Energy Fraud w/more links.