Since these five turbines can’t pay their own way without government subsidies—which also have to pay for the continual, imperative maintenance often neglected by private owners—plans for building them at Pantex, the federal nuke weapons factory and storage outside Amarillo, makes more sense than the ones on private land supposedly intended to, ahem, turn a profit.
Pantex’s federal land presumably will have the further advantage of the EPA turning a blind bureaucratic eye away from all the eagles and other birds these monsters are projected to start killing next summer. While producing supposedly enough electricity to run only sixty percent of the plant. And all for just $4.5 billion each. Each.
One of the contractors is Bechtel, a little firm that was accused of war-profiteering in Iraq in 2006. Can you say Democrat boondoggle with under-the-table payoffs all around? I knew you could.
Via Knoxblogs.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Which reminds me the word Luftgesheft: “Luftgesheft is a Yiddish expression which literally translates as ‘Air-Business’.”
The other meaning is quite clear: monkey business.
Heh. Sort of like Vaporware.
Why do the images of a lot of air and democrats go together so well? A mystery of life I must ponder.
We were sold on this idea because we had to get onboard that European alternative-enegy train that was leaving the station. Now the Euros are backing off, but you don’t hear that being ballyhooed in the press, do you?
http://plbirnamwood.blogspot.com/2011/08/green-jobs-initiative-fraud-waste-abuse.html
and
http://plbirnamwood.blogspot.com/2011/09/uk-wind-power-is-pipe-dream.html
Not just air. Don’t forget the solar panels and the electric cars. “Renewable” energy is a fabulous attention-diverter.
Thanks for the links. I’m not surprised you were way ahead of me.