Northwestern IN now has a significant wind farm. North of Lafayette, it's turbines as far as the eye can see. In one recent family trip through the area my 10 year old daughter asked, “Daddy how many houses do one of those make electricity for?” I answered, “As long as the wind is blowing, and depending on the temperature and season 1 to 3.”
My 10 year old then said, astonished, “You mean we'd have to put one in our back yard just to power our own house?” To which my wife replied, “Yes and on calm days, you and your brothers would be on electric generator cycles peddling till you died so your father could watch the news.”
My 10 year old immediately saw the absurdity. But our president and the author of this waste of ink can't seem to grasp the economics.