Go to google earth and find out. I don’t know where this is or I would look for them.
Great idea! Sometimes, however, the Google earth close-ups are somewhat out of date, but I’ll go see! ;-)
No, just do a keyword google search and you will find, among others, the wiki page, and on the wiki page you will find the same photo that is posted in reply 11.
Those were installed in the 1980s and were the small ones. Same as in Texas and California.
All those windmills were replaced with the larger ones and yes the smaller ones were removed.
This story about the abandoned windmills began with Tony Ardvark in Australia and supposedly there were 14,000 in Hawaii and California that were abandoned when the subsidies ran out.
That story was shot down long ago but some people talk like it is fact.
Common sense tells you that the steel gets recycled. The shafts and gears are really high dollar steel. Even the blades get recycled.
OTOH, the oil and gas industry uses a huge amount of steel that never gets recycle. Every well drilled has steel casing that is cemented in. Even the dry holes have steel casing. Oil and gas pipelines don't get recycled either.
The modern windmill business in Texas really began in 1997 when Enron bought the California wind company Zond Corporation, which they owned until they went out of business when it was sold to GE.
Enron got the Texas lege to implement the first renewable standards in 1999. Then the first natural gas shortages hit the US in 2000-2001 and that set off the first wave windmill building in Texas. Katrina in 2005 set off the second wave
In 2008 the decision was made to build all the new windlines in Texas which were completed in 2014($7 billion). That set off the third wave.