----- Original Message ----- From: "Jed Rothwell" > the energy payback time for a wind turbine is the lowest of any conventional energy source. It takes about 3 months for a wind tower to produce enough energy to manufacture another tower.
Excellent. Again... everyone *should* be for using wind energy in every site where it is feasible. Every consumer and every utility should be in favor of that. But even so, that will not be nearly enough, as a practical matter. You talk as if there is some kind of conspiracy against wind. I do not see any conspiracy here. All the power companies desire to have the lowest cost, most reliable source of energy - and none that I know of will exclude wind as a source, so long as it is competitive - why would they?... there is no conspiracy against wind energy. There just are not that many sites where there is reliable wind in proximity to the national grid, as many proponents want us to believe. The power companies are not against wind, but there are against investing money where there is no decent return on investment. The article in FSB about the South Dakota Indian tribe is a perfect case in point. They have a great site. They have the motivation. There are no political obstacles. But they have no money, and when they go to a power-generator, or to a bank, the problem is always the same - "sure we would invest here, except the cost to get the power from Dakota to the grid is then times higher than the cost of the wind-farm... or whatever. I think wind will take care of itself, to the degree that there are good sites available. There is no conspiracy against wind that I can see and the problem of re-educating the utility companies was taken care of a decade ago... so what are you really saying? That there is still some secret conspiracy out there? Jones
