Take a look at this great video clip of a foundation for anaverage wind tower/turbine about 150' tall on Friday. For today's corporateonshore wind industrial sites, this is actually a small tower, with somedevelopments putting up dozens and dozens of towers as high 700'.
Now, think about the volume of rebar, cement and other materialsthat goe into putting up just a single tower, with the foundation buriedunderground to keep it out of sight of prying eyes. Does anyone in their rightmind think wind developers have the slightest plans to all dig those things upand restore the land when their industrial sites finish their useful lives,unless required to do so by effective, proper regulations that, do notcurrently exist in any state in America?
Please. Be real. These things are supposed to have a 25-yearuseful life. A quarter century from now, the cost involved in taking downdozens of these towers/turbines and their enormous bird-killing blades, diggingup and breaking up all those tons of reinforced cement, properly disposing ofit all, and remediating the land that's been destroyed will cost far more thanit did to build the damn things in the first place.
If you think all the wind blade graveyards popping up all overthe place today are a problem being created by this useless, needless industry,well, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Thanks to X user John Lee Pettimore for posting this video.
