Energy Policy Outrage, Part II: ‘Windmills Are Pretty!’

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  October 29th at 11:00 AM  | 

Despite the inefficiency, unreliability and poor economics of wind energy, even the biggest skeptic would acknowledge the appeal of the Bird Cuisinart* to anyone interested in the elusive goal of Energy Independence. After all, the wind is free, right? The wind may be free but the magnets required to make electricity from the whirling blades of a windmill are any thing but free. As we | Read More »