By Andrew Bolt
TonyfromOz prefaces …..
This post from Andrew has a link to a long post from our friends at the ‘American Thinker’ site, and that link is well worth taking to read the full article. These white elephants are proving to be more of a problem than a boon.
Wind farms are dying in the United States as the taxpayer handouts dry out:
Some say that Ka Le is haunted—and it is. But it’s haunted not by Hawaii’s legendary night marchers. The mysterious sounds are “Na leo o Kamaoa”– the disembodied voices of 37 skeletal wind turbines abandoned to rust on the hundred-acre site of the former Kamaoa Wind Farm…
The ghosts of Kamaoa are not alone in warning us. Five other abandoned wind sites dot the Hawaiian Isles—but it is in California where the impact of past mandates and subsidies is felt most strongly. Thousands of abandoned wind turbines littered the landscape of wind energy’s California “big three” locations—Altamont Pass, Tehachapin (above right), and San Gorgonio—considered among the world’s best wind sites…
California’s wind farms—then comprising about 80% of the world’s wind generation capacity—ceased to generate much more quickly than Kamaoa. In the best wind spots on earth, over 14,000 turbines were simply abandoned. Spinning, post-industrial junk which generates nothing but bird kills…
Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.
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