Howdy Vorts, The Houston Chronicle article today kinda disputes claims regarding the idea of using windmills. The power produced ain't worth the power to produce without heavy subsidies. Also reports that a norther blew in one day and the wind farm output dropped so low that it upset the grid and almost caused a major blackout. Some third of the big mills are down for repairs at any one time. Nobody has reliable figures on real operating cost cuz the whole business is sorta off the books.. well... kinda.. Algorish sorta accounting. After all , it's green ..ain't it ? Our local area electric co-op advertizes wind power as an option for a coupla cents more per willowatt. That's what the Dime Box saloon describes green energy as.. willowatts.
The whole wind energy business is so convoluted with politics and tax tricks that it's starting to resemble the DoE. You know.. the outfit that awarded a contract to Lockheed for an advanced design warplane for some 138 billion bucks and have zilch to show for their money so far... but not to worry.. the Marine heliocopter deal for 38 choppers for the white house fits the pattern.. megabucks spent and no choppers yet. Hey ! bartender !! slide one down the bar to Jed.. he has a perplexed look on his face.. musta been something he read about BLP. Richard Jed mentioned this link, Move Over, Oil, There's Money in Texas Wind http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/business/23wind.html
