Comments on: US wind headed for dismal year as carbon emissions rise

By: Dutchman61

Dutchman61 — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:13:00 +0000

Wind is fine as a local surge supply supplemental power source, but it nearly useless as a primary supply since it can not maintain a steady voltage and current without heavy filtering. .It is very expensive and can not go head to head on cost. If it could why the drop? And there are not many places to put the mills. They are already slaughtering birds and bats in numbers that dwarf the highest by the coal industry. They the number one killer of California Condors (driving them back toward extinction again) and Bald Eagles. They are whipping out all of the progress made in whooping cranes and other endangered migratory birds. Yet that does not matter to the Left.

By: MAC615

MAC615 — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 22:07:00 +0000

The discussion should also include how predicatable and reliable wind generation is. Mother Nature is not either prdictable or reliable to be there consistently to generate electricity. I should know, since I operate a natural gas pipeline which is relied on alot to makeup for the missed predicition of wind power.

By: Paul M Raup

Paul M Raup — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:22:00 +0000

All the energy companies will just have to wait and see who Obama will choose to be profitable next year………..maybe he will have more “flexibility” after this election.

By: spec9

spec9 — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:51:00 +0000

The GOP led Congress is a disaster. They have managed to exceed the record of the “Do Nothing” Congress in managing to do EVEN LESS.

By: wld

wld — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:44:00 +0000

Give them back their tax credits and fire some people at the IRS, NSA, ATF, and EPA to pay for it. The tax credit is cheap compared to breaking the liberal fantasy bubble they live in making us have to read this crap and hear them whine.

By: floridanativee

floridanativee — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:50:00 +0000

This proves that wind can not begin to stand on it’s own. As long as you are giving something away, people will take it, but when they have to pay for it, they will pass. If we had only spent a fraction of the money spent on huge old technology projects on research, the wind industry would be much further along. This is the fault of greedy politicians give projects to the democrat politically connected. We wasted billions of dollars on this.