I very much doubt that there are 10's of thousands of abandoned wind turbines anywhere in the world, let alone in the US. They may be counting those old water pumping windmills?
Renewable energy is the only way we will survive into the next century with anything close to the current standard of living.
For those who dismiss anthropogenic climate change as nothing more than a conspiracy by scientists looking for job security, here's another conspiracy debunked with similar logic:
It is simply not possible to fake climate change data. Except if you have a time machine - yeah that's how they did it!