toejam

The problem with windmills is they produce precious little electricity and what they do produce is unreliable. On the hottest and coldest days when the grid is desparate for more generation you'll probably get nothing from windmills. In 1999 the generating output of every windmill in the U.S. was less than that of either of Texas' nuclear plants. There's maybe three times that now due to tons of government money being spent on them. And there's my fundamental problem with windmill farms - the builders get rich at taxpayers expense and we get a couple of unreliable megawatts.

Of renewable energy sources only hydro power has the ability to produce significant amounts of electricity. There may be more nuke plants built before hydro dams. I'm a worker at a nuclear plant and I hope they don't ever build another one until there is spent fuel reprocessing and deep storage like there was supposed to be all along (I'll spare you the sermon for now).

When you have conversations about renewable energy, ask how many megawatts. A lot of industry and expense goes into producing a couple of megawats from the wind and sun.