Maine_Guy of Portland, ME in response to theBike45

Your argument is a bit flawed. Wind is the fastest growing source of newly installed generation - wind must have SOME redeeming quality? :)

How can you explain that nearly every other country is developing new wind sites, if wind technology and cost is as crappy as you say?

Do a little research, you'll be surprised how cost-effective (and reliable) wind actually is.report abuse

Maine_Guy of Portland, ME Past "siting regulations" did not work for hydropower projects - and I suspect more regulations will not be benficial for windpower.

As a hiker, I am irked by the decision of "trail groups" to decide how and where wind energy should be cited. Every wind project site will have it's drawbacks and opponents.

The AT only serves a limited number of people per year - it would take many years (10?) of hikers to view the Redington wind farm to equal the 40,000 people that could get electricity from it every year.

The perfect site that has no people, animals, or plantlife has not yet been found (except on the moon).report abuse

theBike45 of tampa, FL Of all of the alternative energy sources, wind power is without doubt the most expensive and least effective method of generating energy. I'm
amazed by those who push this crappy technology, armed with the bogus arguments of the wind advocacy groups and turbine manufacturers. I laugh when I see the gullible rubes swallowing the wind industry's patented method of deceit : have the manufacturer stamp some meaningless maximum capacity rating on the machine, one which overstates the actual output of the typical machine by a factor of four, and then use that meaningless number to characterize how much output a wind facility will generate. 100 megawatt windfarms don't generate 100 megawatts -they generate around 25 megawatts, practically with a guarantee that it will be produced at the worst possible time - during the middle of the night. Add all the wind power you desire, but
no reliable power plants can ever be closed as a result, because they are needed during periods of peak demand, and at other times to back up unreliable wind. Wind generated power has the least value of all. It is, without question, the worst alternative energy out there. No matter how you slice it, wind sucks. Look into the far more effective geothermal heat pump, wave machines like the Seadog that produce reliable electricity and far more of it than the multimillion dollar windmills. Or biofuel powered power plants. Only the foolish and ignorant are rushing to errect largely useless wind turbines. report abuse