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Saturday, January 25, 2020

Rusting Monuments to Stupidity: Staggering Cost of Cleaning Up the Wind Industry’s Giant Mess

The wind industry is like the partying college students that trash their parent’s house, never sparing a thought about cleaning up the mess afterwards.

With subsidies being slashed across the globe, the great wind industry ‘party’ will inevitably draw to a close. And the adults will need to raise the tricky issue about who cleans up the mess? And who pays?

Giant industrial wind turbines have an economic lifespan around 15 years, after which the chances are that they’ll be left to rust in some idiot’s back paddock.

Decommissioning these things properly at a sizeable wind farm would run into the hundreds of millions. Then there’s the toxic waste.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If people would research instead of believing the song and dance the rich play for them they would realize wind is a win for the rich and loss for the poor.

Anonymous said...

The "former" wind turbine at Chesapeake College on Rt. 50 should be a warning to anyone with common sense.