{"id":3150,"date":"2026-01-28T00:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:54:10","slug":"clean-wind-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3150","title":{"rendered":"clean wind energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/wind-turbine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/wind-turbine.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/wind-turbine.jpg 960w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/wind-turbine-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/wind-turbine-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>wikipedia photo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been researching wind turbines this last week.  I was looking at, for instance, a cluster of wind turbines in Paulding County, Ohio.  The turbines are much more spread out (then what&#8217;s shown in this California photo, which looks to be in a remote location) over a good number of farmers&#8217; fields.  The Ohio location has some 200 wind turbines spread throughout a two-county area.  And they produce electricity for some 100,000 homes annually.  What&#8217;s more, the farmers typically earn between $3,000 and $20,000 annually for each turbine.  And the local governments and schools get approximately $2.5 million a year in taxes.  Note:  That 100,000 home figure would double, maybe triple even, if us First World homeowners were a lot more conscientious about energy use, across the board.  *What&#8217;s more, I also learned that 94% of each turbine (once out of operation) is now recyclable. For a look at our position on energy in general, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/energy\">see&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wikipedia photo I have been researching wind turbines this last week. I was looking at, for instance, a cluster of wind turbines in Paulding County, Ohio. The turbines are much more spread out (then what&#8217;s shown in this California photo, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3150\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}