[thackney]

Wind power is incredibly inefficient.

There are places it makes sense, if done without taxpayer subsidies.

I've put wind turbines on small unmanned offshore platforms.

[hadaclueonce]

There are places it makes sense, if done without taxpayer subsidies.

I agree 100%. I do not want to pay them so a greenie can feel they are saving mother earth.

[jdsteel]

As long as the offshore platform has access to a power grid that can make sense. That is, if the cost of the platform, the turbine and the transmission lines cost less than the unsubsidized energy is worth over a reasonable period of time. That pares the possibilities down quite a bit.

[cripplecreek]

A few months back DOE themselves listed some 800 dams east of the Mississippi that could be retrofitted to return to electricity production.

Unfortunately wind fixated “greenies” want to tear out all the dams and let the rivers flow free. Never mind that hydro is tried and true effective green energy production that actually works every day all day. (not to mention not needing to be replaced every 20 years at most)