{"id":324498,"date":"2010-02-16T00:04:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T05:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papundits.wordpress.com\/?p=31309"},"modified":"2010-02-16T00:04:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T05:04:14","slug":"death-of-the-wind-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/324498","title":{"rendered":"Death Of The Wind Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>By Andrew Bolt\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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TonyfromOz prefaces …..<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wind farms are dying in the United States as the taxpayer handouts dry out:<\/p>\n

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Some say that Ka Le is haunted\u2014and it is. But it\u2019s haunted not by Hawaii\u2019s legendary night marchers. The mysterious sounds are \u201cNa 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\u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n

The ghosts of Kamaoa are not alone in warning us. Five other abandoned wind sites dot the Hawaiian Isles\u2014but 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\u2019s California \u201cbig three\u201d locations\u2014Altamont Pass, Tehachapin (above right), and San Gorgonio\u2014considered among the world\u2019s best wind sites\u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n

California\u2019s wind farms\u2014then comprising about 80% of the world\u2019s wind generation capacity\u2014ceased to generate much more quickly than Kamaoa.\u00a0 In the best wind spots on earth, over 14,000 turbines were simply abandoned<\/a>.\u00a0 Spinning, post-industrial junk which generates nothing but bird kills…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Andrew Bolt<\/em><\/a> is a journalist and columnist writing for <\/em>The Herald Sun<\/em><\/a> in Melbourne Victoria Australia.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more excellent articles from Andrew Bolt\u2019s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

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