“A breathtaking sight awaits those who travel to the southernmost tip of Hawaii’s stunningly beautiful Big Island… the rusting skeletons of scores of wind turbines…
thanks to the [government] subsidies, it hardly mattered that some of the untested turbines were so sub-standard they barely even worked… for some wind energy investors it was simply a tax scam… it lasted only as long as the subsidies…
The American Bird Conservancy estimates wind turbines kill between 75,000 and 275,000 birds each year…
There are horror stories about turbines falling over, catching fire after being struck by lightning, lethal shards of ice being hurled from the blades…
While Hawaii has six abandoned wind farms, most of California’s derelict turbines are only now being removed — decades late — after disgusted local authorities threatened to sue…
it was sometimes the hapless farmer or rancher who owned the land who had to foot the $1,000-a-tower clean-up bill…
U.S. investment in wind energy plunged 38 per cent last year. Experts say there are simply too many turbines out there and not enough people buying the electricity.”
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