Here in Idaho. The Lava Wind Project approved last December by the Biden Administration's Bureau of Land Management would have constructed 231 wind turbines on over 57 thousand acres in Southern Idaho's BLM lands. Thankfully, common sense took over and the Trump Administration stopped this project. In Idaho Falls where I live, the hillsides are overwhelmed with these eyesores. To add salt to the wounds, none of the little energy they produce goes into Idaho. It all goes to California.

Cali. is a good place for it

I'd much sooner drive past a nuke plant on ten acres than miles and miles of those ugly things.

And I’d rather look at those windmills than to have to live next to anywhere they decide to store the toxic radioactive waste pilled up by that 10 ac plant. I will cede that massive corporate wind farms may not be the ideal way to utilize and harvest renewable wind derived energy.

We have wind turbines not to far from where I live and that electricity goes to Florida I don't understand why the electricity goes to a different state then where the turbines are located.

$$$$$

I'll just say ... Follow the money.

Read an article on the net yesterday that was saying that California was the only state in the union that could separate and stay a float by it's self.

I hardly believe that to be possible in any degree with what they have to have from other states to get buy and also all the funding they still receive from the government to function.

I left a note saying this article compares to the Sci-Fi news being spewed about the new inbound boulder being an Alien attack !!

If they can’t recoup the energy it takes to make them what’s the point then? If it’s a losing proposition from day 1 the rest is going through the motions of any gains for the environment. All dog and pony show no real gains really.

Politician family members in DC own the facilities that manufacture the components. The smallest turbines take 50 gallons of oil (gasp) to lubricate. Up to 300 gallons for larger turbines and they all leak eventually

They keep making them bigger but no spare parts.

Actually a 1000 MW would be a fair amount of power. Probably don't need this much power in idaho.

All wind farm projects are taxpayer funded. That’s the part that really wizzes me off.

The only way wind farms make sense is for the tax credits (not tax deductions) that they create for big corporation like General Electric. They do not pencil-out ecomonically, they depreciate and become useless long before they pay for themselves. Huge scam on the taxpayers.

Most of idaho gets it electric power from hydroelectric which the taxpayers likely funded.

All the posts on this thread, seem to point to the same corrupt dictator , For respect of the administration of this site , I'll not name names .
Just give the information , remember this land was taken over by the government just to put in a wind farm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff

along the mountain next to Mt. Storm WV there are hundreds of them, about half of them do not spin at all. just a waste of millions of dollars. They never repair or remove them.

We need more energy. In Oklahoma, for example, companies are trying to build data centers and those data centers consume a lot of energy. Our electric providers do not have enough juice.

I don't love the look of wind farms and definitely don't love the tax credits, but, again, we need more energy.

Manitoba Hydro learned their lesson building a couple wind farms. Won’t be doing that again, but we’ll buy a bit of power during peaks to help offset the load from a private entity……if they ever decide to go ahead with the project…..lol
Good time to scrap it if they haven’t already invested too much.

Do we have any fact checkers to check the fact checkers ?
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/07/does-wind-work-without-subsidies/

I read sone of the article; lots of accounting mumbo-jumbo. The simple fact is; if they are economical, they wouldn't need subsidies.