Several problems with this quote (going back to the populist demagoguery thread).

Maybe Pres Trump actually thinks that's how wind power works, which makes him woefully uninformed to a point where he hasn't been properly prepared to make decisions about energy policy.

Maybe Pres Trump understands how wind power works, but he's saying stuff like this out of a cynical and condescending effort to appeal to the lowest common denominator because he thinks large portions of his base either don't know better or don't care. One of the dangers of this option is that there are, for better or worse, lots of people who will hear that kind of statement from the President of the United States, assume he knows what he's talking about, and then go forward thinking that's how wind power works. It's one thing if random crackpot on the internet devotes his blog to why wind power only allows your ham radio to work while it's windy out. It would be irresponsible for the President of the United States to knowingly spread that kind of faulty information. The "I know a lot about wind" line is just comical when contrasted against the rest of the quote.

To be fair the OP is hackneyed TDS.

Fair question. Currently, the materials used to make turbine blades are not particularly amenable to refurbishing for reuse as turbine blades although apparently, they can be re-used by facilities that are just getting up and running. The 2nd article below is the one I had in mind when I made that post - after re-reading it, it's not quite as grim as I thought I remembered, although some of the material recovery/recycling processes (pyrolysis) are quite energy intensive. The first article has some pretty interesting stuff about wind power as well.

https://cen.acs.org/...e-blades-toward.html

https://cen.acs.org/...ng-renewables/96/i15

Oh, and my handle refers to my preference for bicycle frame material - love me some Ti.

no kidding... dinglebarry bumps the AOC thread to keep it near the top

At the risk of starting something, how do you think wind power works?

Last time I checked, if you were using wind to generate electricity and the wind wasn’t blowing, you won’t be generating electricity.
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The bigger issue with wind is the finite service lifetime of the hardware, particularly the turbine blades. They're yuge, and there's currently no good way to deal with them after they're replaced and taken out of service.