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Green energy?
With brown
What to do with worn out wind turbines? BTW, I see lots of new ones being built to the east north of I74. “They” aren’t quitting this silly game.
Conveniently, the companies who put up the wind turbines did not adequately plan to decommission them when they reach the end of their useful life. If they are still in business they have not saved the money required to remove them. Consequently, the land owner is stuck with these ugly, useless hunks of steel and fiberglass polluting their property.
The money is irresistible.
FEDUP is right. I’ve been approached by both wind and solar. Admittedly the money, as CROP FAILURE says, is hard to resist. But I am because the money is insane…$3000 to $4500. per acre per year was the last solar offer. When gov subsidies run out so will the money. Then what? Additionally it’s a shell game of sorts. A farmer I know of with wind mills has, in just a few years, gone through five companies paying the rent. One company that approached me was getting their money from Japan!?! Maybe I’m the fool but to me “if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is”. And “there’s no such thing as a free lunch”.