[reaganaut1]

"Ignoring things we know" is the only way Dems can advance their agenda.

[ctdonath2]

One word: capacitors.

[bboop]

They have not ‘captured’ the ‘public’s’ support — they are being crammed down our throats by a few folks who pretend to believe in them, for their own purposes.

[steelyourfaith]

Jason Lewis, substitute host for El Rushbo, August 11, 2008 on the E.I.B Network:

"The federal government has to subsidize windmill production through production tax credits of about 1.8¢ per kilowatt. Wind Farms also receive an accelerated depreciation. Wind farms are also land intensive. They produce a fraction of the energy of a traditional power plant but they require 100 times the acreage.

From the National Center for Policy Analysis: to produce a 1000 megawatt power plant a wind farm would require 192,000 acres or 300 square miles. A nuclear plant would need about 1700 acres (or 2.65 mi²), and about 3 mi² for a coal fired power plant. The transmission lines for the wind turbines would be massive, 12,000 miles just for the array."

 

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[ml/nj]

solar and wind energy seem to have captured the public's support as potentially being the primary or total answer to our electric power needs.

Because many of the public still believe in the tooth fairy.

ML/NJ

[ansel12]

Wind Industrial sites are ugly and ruin the outdoors. Would the left allow this at ANWAR?

[bray]

The only power they really care about is political. This is just an ends to that means.

Pray for America

[Falcon4.0]

Even this article doesn't “Get Real” with the issue of Solar Energy. Solar Energy isn't “Clean”. Sunshine is clean.
Solar Energy take toxic materials to create electricity and it takes toxic materials to store the electricity. Do a search on “Deep Cycle Batteries”, the kind used for solar power. You’ll find out that they only last about as long as your car battery. 60 months and cost anywheres from $500 - $1000 a pop and you'll need about 10 of them.
Who's gonna recycle all of the lead and sulfuric acid. Solar panels have a life span as well and they also will need to be reclaimed to prevent they're toxic materials from entering the “Environment”. Who's eating that cost?

[ryan71]

Statists have always and will always “ignore what we know”. They’re statists.

[cookcounty]

Imagine.

In fifty years we could be discussing whether to allow lead mining in ANWR.

[jveritas]

Damn the law of physics. It is all about feeling good for liberals, physics be damned.

[sevinufnine]

I am so glad to see you post this article. Only 2 wks ago, we had 2 men come to our property to discuss adding wind and solar to a home we wish to build and found we DID NOT need to be on the grid and could heat with wood/propane logs...and not even need a heat pump! No more electric or water bill as we’ll have well and septic, so we’ve made up our minds that spending 15-20K and be totally self-reliant is best way to go (besides, we’ll be nearly a mile off hard top road).

Even using a small unit that goes on top of your own home will help with your light bills. I am so looking forward to getting out of town and being in the woods away from the crazy folks...other than my husband and I ;>)

[OneWingedShark]

Solar needs to be at an efficiency of at least 70-80% to become cost effective.... recently they broke 10%.

[thinking]

Has anyone considered that wind generation “farms”, remove energy from the the natural wind flow currents, hence wind mills alter the local wind flow, and as such could/will change the local climate....

[Paco]

Enough of this silliness with wind and solar power! It's time for Joseph Newman.

The Story of Joseph Newman

[DungeonMaster]

Yet wind power is very popular and here in Iowa we will produce over 10 percent of our power from wind. WHY NOT use wind power while the wind is blowing and back fill with other sources when it is not?

[rabidralph]

Here's a great resource for information at windaction.org.

I went with some friends to the Fond Du Lac area of Wisconsin and we saw all the turbines (400 feet tall) marring the farmland. What used to be a view of beautiful, rolling hills was now a stack of noisy, industrial pinwheels, with blinking red lights.

And when the wind doesn't blow, they don't turn, unless they are assisted by electricity. So they're using power to make power and then not generating enough power to do much of anything useful. Would any of you want your hospital or your home running on wind power 24/7?