WGRZ: BUFFALO, N.Y. — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the New York State Thruway Authority against the manufacturers, installers, and consultants involved with a project aimed at powering facilities with wind power, but which turned out to be a failure.
The New York State Thruway Authority, as part of the push by Gov. Andrew Cuomo for agencies to move toward so-called “green energy” sources, installed several wind turbines in 2015, projecting it would save $300,000 a year in utility costs.
Even if that was true, it would take 16 years for the nearly $5 million investment to pay for itself.
That’s if they worked.
But within a couple of years, four of the five wind turbines erected to power toll plazas and other Thruway facilities near exits between Eden-Angola and the Pennsylvania state line had failed.
The Thruway had hoped that due to their proximity near the shore of Lake Erie, prevailing winds at these locations make them well-suited for wind power generation.
However, it was the winds at these locations that made the failed turbines unsuitable for the conditions in the region, because they can’t stand up to the wind shears there. more
Liberals LOVE any form of “alternative” energy… as long as it doesn’t really work.
Money laundering.
The entire “green” energy bullshit is nothing but a scam to fleece the taxpayers.
I’m surprised that more people haven’t awakened to that fact.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
I hope that they take down these uglifying, bird-killing monstrosities – every single one of them !
They “hoped” that the wind would blow to power the turbines? So much for science.
File this under; States can fuck things up almost as well as the feds.
The Green Grift carries on unabated. Crooks make millions off the green dreams off of taxpayer subsidies put in place to appease the screeching legions of neon-haired ignorant fucks who think they’re “saving the planet”.
way past time to take all the greenies, their supporters, their funders and strip them naked and drop them off on an uninhabited island to live as gaia intended and away from us.
…well, we have a non-functioning government that we can’t get rid of too, so I can sympathize…
I hate those ugly ass things. They put them up in parts of Oklahoma, where used to you could see cows, which was much better to look at than those ugly ass things.
Drive through Kansas and you see the ugly ass things.
Drive through Iowa and that’s all you see are those ugly ass things and corn being grown for ethanol.
NYS doesn’t care, they have deep pockets to get the money from, the taxpayers pockets are always available when needed for capricious green projects.
If you follow the link and read the account you discover that the problem is not Green technology per se. The manufacturer and the engineers advised the state to determine the wind conditions before going ahead. The state did not, so the failure is on it.
Each “wind turbine” is a negative energy sink. Never producing the amount of energy required to produce and maintain it.
hahahah and I live in NY, the boro of Queens and I cannot stop laughing. the other option I would wind up in Rikers Island
SOLAR & WIND DO NOT NOT NOT WORK!
WAY INEFFICIANT… 500,000 POUNDS OF
DIRT HAVE TO BE MINED UP TO MAKE 1 TESLA BATTERY.
Texas could build dozens of small to medium natural
gas power plants.The gas scrubbers they have today
are incredible at reducing emmisions.Texas could power
5 states with REAL clean energy, but no! dam commies!