Those wind generation companies pay a lot of taxes to state and county/townships they are sitting on. The windfall is huge to those small communities.

Gary, I’m surprised that they are burying them they said the ones here when they come down they take and grind them for reuse of the fiberglass.

Edp: would like to see if they survive without federal subsidies

Wind and solar both are subsidized. It is why the Europeans owned a large portion of this "green" looting of America in the Obama years. For the facts, I was told that our rural electric was mandated to purchase 40% green energy from Obama regulations, which are still on the books, and is why all of our energy prices have tripled and will keep rising.
If people would raise enough protest about this, in shutting off subsidies, and demanding that the 40% be removed, it would release funds for maintaining coal and progress to thorium. For those who are not aware, America had working thorium power plants in the 1960's. Richard Nixon shut it down, because America needed nuclear weapons from nuclear plants.
Thorium is clean nuclear power, the earth has billions of tons of it, and the United States is loaded with it by God's good Grace. We could power the world literally.

Wind power requires a great deal of cost maintenance. It is the worst of the green energies, as costs are overwhelming. I have read stories that Europe is dumping their wind power and trying to unload it on Africa.

American energy policy is controlled by the insiders. Our natural gas is being used to run power plants in the east, which is driving up our home heating costs. States like Minnesota are insane in getting rid of all energy production, and expecting North and South Dakota to generate coal electricity for them. That is liberalism. North Dakota has stated that they are at max in green energy as it is not dependable. You can not power a grid with a system where the wind does not blow half the year, and the sun is not in they sky for half the day.

When the wind turbine wears out and taken down. Are they being replaced with new ones on the same location? If not. What happens to the foundation? Surely they are quite deep in the ground? Had a updated transmission line near my place about 8 years ago. Those footings each pole are 11’ diameter and 48’ deep. Solid concrete and rebar cage structures.

I would like to see if they survive without federal subsidies.

See, this is where I miss BuckNE.