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Plus often the need to build high-power transmission lines, not to mention the land depreciation after 20-25 years (the lifespan of the average wind turbine). T
by moogly 6y ago
Plus often the need to build high-power transmission lines, not to mention the land depreciation after 20-25 years (the lifespan of the average wind turbine). The cost of decommissioning just one wind turbine (and you probably have at least 3-4, building fewer in one site is rarely worth it) is likely to make the land it stands on completely worthless.
- epistasis 6y ago> likely to make the land it stands on completely worthless. Sorry, what? Are they building the pylons with nuclear waste? How could land depreciate?
- the-dude 6y agoFor one, you have an enormous block of concrete there now.
- Craighead 6y agoWhat an amazing shilltastic subjective string od comments.
- epistasis 6y agoThat won't cause any land depreciation or decrease in the value of the land. It may reduce the sale price, if concrete block has no value to a purchaser, but only by the amount that it would take to remove the concrete block. And if the land is so valueless that concrete removal significantly impacts pricing, the land wouldn't have been valuable enough to instal wind turbines in the first place! So this sort of FUD seems to be extremely weak. Wind power is a massively profitable business, the amount of money that can be made dwarfs the capital costs of the construction, which in turn dwarfs the cost decommissioning of non-toxic materials.