Look elektra. I’m not advocating to cover our entire country with turbines and stop using all other energy production sources. Location, energy needs, resources, costs, all play a factor. What I don’t understand are closed minded people like you with an agenda to demonize and shut down its use all together.
I am not demonizing. I am stating fact!
Wind Turbines failed in the 1800's. Wind Turbines were replaced by water power, then steam power. Today, steam power is the most powerful source of electricity on the planet.
Location? The best locations in the World always have days or weeks, of no wind.
Location? Palm Springs is a location I am very familiar with. I lived there. Back then we had newspapers that wrote the news.
Thousands of wind turbines were built in the Palm Springs area. Thousands. The corporation that built them literally saved Vesta from bankruptcy. The corporation that installed the Wind Turbines went bankrupt shortly after they were installed. I read it in the newspaper. In Bankruptcy court, the assets, the wind turbines were sold to another corporation for pennies on the dollar. Very easy to make a bit of a profit when you by a billion dollar project for a hundred million.
That corporation operated the wind farm until the wind turbines started to break down, then they went bankrupt. Pure facts. The assets were sold as scrap.
Now a new corporation came in, installed a new generation of wind turbines. Oops, they went bankrupt after the installation. Those turbines lasted less than ten years.
We are now on a 3rd generation of wind turbines, that are being replaced with the 4th generation of wind turbines.
The profit is the government subsidy for the installation of wind turbines. Damn, that only results in bankruptcy for the corporations, after the investors are paid off and the top corporate officials all make million dollar bonuses
The solution to all these bankruptcies? Congress granted a subsidy for every kilowatt generated.
We know longer have a free market where the best, most efficient product makes our lives, our standard of living better. We have a market dictated by the government that makes the most profit for Wall st., The Federal Reserve, The International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.
In other words, your idea that Wind Turbines are somehow good, is only correct if you are stating that Wind Turbines have increased the profits big oil corporations make.
Wind Turbines are a product of the fossil fuel industry. What industry would not want to have square miles of their products, working or not. They are all sold, they make the profit, we are left with a technology as old as dirt.
Big Oil, Big Banks, Wall st., all are getting filthy rich.
