Germany generating so much windpower today that price for electricity will fall... below zero

[Eko]

45. Thats interesting.

From your article "Tehachapi and Altamont are the granddaddies of them all — sites of a 1970s-1980s wind energy rush gone wrong. Federal subsidies sparked developers into action, crowding what are now considered antique, poorly functioning turbines into particularly windy areas of California."
But,,
In 2015, NextEra, which owns some of the 100kw Kenetech/US Windpower older turbines, installed during the 1980s, agreed to remove the machines and replace them with 48 new model wind turbines. A power purchase agreement has been completed to power the Googleplex office complex in nearby Mountain View, California. The process of removing old wind turbines and replacing them with newer machines is called repowering. [8]

A portion of the wind energy center is being dismantled as of 2016. Altamont Winds Inc (AWI)'s 83MW of 100kW Kenetech turbines are being taken down. These are older models with lattice towers. It has been proposed to replace them with 27 turbines with rated capacity of 2.1MW each (56.7MW total).[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Pass_Wind_Farm

Doesn't sound abandoned at all.
"it's safe to assume the entire field is abandoned. Nobody owns these things, nobody wants to be liable for cleaning up the mess."
Maybe it's not safe to assume at all.

Still waiting for some proof of "thousands" of dead turbines.