Texas makes wind power work as 10% of the electricity generated in Texas comes from wind turbines.
“I searched and found out that they were really not connected to any network, were not generating usable electricity, they were all for show to placate the “green growth” European bureaucrats who gave them money to install the eyesores instead of growing crops.”
These giant bird and bat killing, noisemaking eye sores are nothing but vote gathering contraptions for politicians who are promising to replace “fossil fuels” with “renewable energy” as a solution to the “global warming” myth. This is all smoke and mirrors to keep the public fixated on a non-existent problem. It is the “trouble in River City” technique used by con men throughout history. (song from The Music Man)
I predict that in the future we will have these rusty relics littering the countryside everywhere when it becomes obvious they are not economically viable without government subsidy. There will likely not even be an economically viable option to remove these ugly things. It will cost to much to remove, and no recycling benefit. It will look like something out of a doomsday movie, dilapidated high tech monstrosities scattered about in the primitive wild-lands.
They have limited usefulness if not located near where the electricity is used or until they find a practical way to store the electricity they produce. A backup source of power is also needed when there is no wind.
Bombing practice.
There are forests of these things in flyover country, and seeing their blades turning from ~30,000 feet definitely gives one a sense of how huge they really are.
Poor birds.