Wind Farm Projects are Beginning to Topple
Due to Strong Economic Headwinds

FTA: “This is the vulnerable moment where the benefits are on the horizon,” Grumet told reporters this spring. “Because we don’t have the benefits of it on the table. We don’t have massive facilities producing energy, lowering prices in those states.” This is almost worthy of The Kamel A Hairass Award for Nonsensical Gobbledygook. All they need to do is wish the wind farm into existence and then they’ll “have the benefits of it on the table.” And as far as lowering costs goes, with the rising costs of wind power all they have to do is wish more of them into existence and they can make up for losses on volume.

Too bad, it was a great and profitable scam while it lasted, mostly because governments were wasting our valuable tax money to fund it. Now that reality is biting proponents in the butt, they are beginning to think through the unworkable physics and logic, which should have been the first step. Even when "the benefits are on the table" people must be forced to buy into it and if the dismal sales of EV cars is any indication, it's not going to happen.

Hah! Toadjah.

Wind farms are hideous eyesores and provide extremely expensive, and terribly unreliable power. They are a VERY bad idea.

So many BS lies but oh, so much money for a handful.

Reality beats fantasy. Again. But this will do nothing to stem the hysteria.

There is more than monetary expense, there is the impact of the wind mills killing birds and interfering with dolphin's and whale's directional senses not to mention the screeching nose they make.

Hoisted on the petard of commie lies!

Looks like some people (corporations) are waking up to the greenie 'scam'...about time...

This reminds me about the story of selling watermelons and just needing a bigger truck to start making any money.

What is tragic is that all the "reasons" to back out have been clearly laid out as these projects started and the government pooh poohed the concerns and pressured the projects forward. Now, as negative experience builds up with wind (and solar) power, people are being FORCED to acknowledge the real costs and the supply inadequacies of "green" energy. The governments and companies are trying to tap dance out of such projects because the certain failure of these projects would be devastating and criminally embarrassing. If you want an economical and reliable green source, modern nuclear power is the only broadly applicable source. The problem is, the same people that are fighting fossil fuels today demonize nuclear power. Since only a moron or Greta Thudbird could believe that green energy is a solution, it seems like the "greenies" are setting us up for catastrophic energy failures. You have to question their motivation.

Cut out subsidies and see how long these last.

Even when windmills are working for a large percentage of the time, they are not all that productive. One huge problem they are experiencing is deteriorating bases both offshore and land-based. It seems that designers did not realize that such large blades spinning in the wind would cause tremendous vibration in the bases, which causes the soft material used to mount the columns on the bases to disintegrate. There is one particular offshore farm near northern Europe that has a fleet of boats that tend to the bases and constantly must reinforce the bases and it's dangerous work. Efficient? In their dreams. Message to non-traditional producers of electricity, go nuke or go broke. This wind fad will die out over the next ten years. Another huge problem, what to do with the voluminous amount of waste and useless blades once the machine wears out?

Re #13, huge amounts of steel used in the towers and gearboxes, and the copper used in the generators can be recycled. Those fiberglass blades.....you can burn them, a very smoky mess, and that leaves tons of glass fibers which blow in the wind, nasty to breathe. Very difficult to get rid of, and they last for at least a century relatively unchanged. The first fiberglass parts that I am aware of being made in quantity are radomes on early fighter aircraft. These have been found in aircraft scrapyards 60+ years after being made and tested for strength and deterioration. Minimal surface damage from decades of sun exposure. Getting rid of those damned huge blades is going to be an expensive mess. And if Tehachapi Pass is an indication, in California, the damned things will be abandoned and sit their, unturning, for decades. The Tehachapi pass, above Mojave, California, east of LA basin, is a very windy place. So, windmills were put in place starting in the 70s. And each newer generation of "bigger and better" windmills was installed right in amoungst the old dead ones. AFAIK none were actually taken down and disposed of. The place is a total eyesore of abandoned, dead windmills. They have been there for 50 years now....nobody is cleaning up this eyesore. See for yourself. Here's a link but a quick image search will show you hundreds of the damned things, and from visiting many times, 80-90% never turn, are dead and long abandoned. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ELq7FIkHfCo/VXyVeUaD-gI/AAAAAAAAGBg/iNeYxtQ4XQo/s640/la-1432999-me-0523-condor-wind-farm-005-ik-jpg-20131206.jpg or http://c1.vgtstatic.com/pic/2763.jpg

All wind farms do is kill birds and make lots of noise. Their reliability is really pathetic.

All solar and wind projects are eye sores, an insult to the surrounding area, whether land or water. Everyone here remembers a June 2023 story about a Nebraska solar facility being utterly destroyed in a hail storm. Some credulous, woke insurance company will probably pay to replace the panels tomorrow--I heard it was some $14M worth--but those new panels might be wiped out by day after tomorrow's hail storm or tornado. Solar and wind are not sustainable power, and should gradually fade away, except for those who live off the grid. Large scale solar and wind is too land (or sea) -intensive, and doesn't produce enough electricity to make these large scale installations economic. Besides, CO2 isn't pollution; it's plant food. Go back to coal, oil, and nuclear. Make Greta T., Al G., and JF'nK go crazy. (Too late!)

Here's a good article about the wasted solar facility. Another problem with solar and wind is that these facilities are basically done for in fifteen years, leaving literal mountains of unrecyclable trash weighing tens of tons. Where do you put decommissioned windmills and old, useless solar panels? Do you haul it all away with electric mining equipment and e-semis? As Puck said in A Midsummer Night's Dream, "Lord, what fools these mortals be." https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/29/huge-nebraska-solar-park-completely-smashed-to-pieces-by-one-single-hailstorm/

After wind farms go out of style, who cleans up the China residue/disposal? China sells this crap to us, but can’t clean up their own country. It’s time John Kerry stops spouting green to the US, and feeds his bull-s to China.