[saganite]

This is going to be even more of an issue when they start building the transmission lines for the windfarms that are proposed. Most will be a long way from their customers requiring long transmission distances.

[RU88]

That will be a fun one to watch: windmill environmentalists fighting the PETA people. Has this country gone collectively insane?

[calex59]

This is going to be even more of an issue when they start building the transmission lines for the windfarms that are proposed. Most will be a long way from their customers requiring long transmission distances.

It has already started. T Boone Pickens has pretty much dropped his wind farm BS because of the transmission line fiasco.

[chimera]

That is the elephant in the living room (that and intermittency, or capacity factor) that no one who advocates these so-called “renewable” energy sources is willing to acknowledge. All of the windies and sunnies say, oh, there's so much power available out in the desert, or on the plains of Montana or North Dakota, we can build these things out there and everything will be great, we don't need oil or nuclear or hydro. The trouble is, very few people live out there, you have to transmit that energy over a long distance, and that means power lines. And then they oppose those. Jerks.