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Originally Posted by Davis Webb
Many countries are using wind power. Canada is suffering as the US is from a hard swing to the right, where no middle ground is permitted (I am quoting Colin Powell here). Of course, what antagonizes them the most is the notion that anything could get in the way of shipping oil to China. They really hate that idea. Our Prime Minister is pure and simple, an oil company shill. So expect right wing rags to complain about anything but fracking. Wind power is viable, its just that here in the Canada/US land mass, we are backward, kind of hoping for a revival of 1952.
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Wind power isn't economically viable outside of of government subsidies. The rated capacity of a wind farm generally yields about 1/3 actual power and it also doesn't usually correspond to demand. If energy storage technology was up to the task then perhaps it would be viable from a demand perspective, but until then the only on-demand (24/7, which is what the grid needs) power source is fossil (natural gas, coal, combined cycle, etc). Also, wind power costs about 3-4 times per kWh that coal does.