KINGMAN — Pictured is the White Hills Wind Project with 127 turbo-powered windmills setting on 100,000 plus acres owned by the Bureau of Land Management. On U.S. 93 in northwestern Mohave County, they provide energy to 100,000 homes in California, but none to Arizona or Mohave County.
The windmills have a life span of 20 to 25 years, then each is dismantled and recycled, except for the blades, reach up to 300 feet long and made of fiberglass and other materials that cannot be recycled. The blades are then cut in smaller pieces and buried in landfills.
However, they do not decay over time. Mohave County Supervisors have expressed strong opposition to them in the county, but they don’t have precedence over federal land.
