To go back to Paintball Shooters original post-

I used to work at a coal fired electric plant. The dispatchers that control the electric grid tolds us the the wind power was only good for about eight percent of the time. When they were generating a spinning reserve had to be maintained to back it up if the wind died. Quite often it would die suddenly leaving a equally sudden need for generation to make up the loss. Sometimes the wind generation would come on then minutes latter drop off. That realy stresses the whole system.

Another aspect of wind is it is a large area effect. If the wind increases or drops off it will influence a bank of wind generators. You won't lose or gain one or two, you'll lose twenty or thirty if not all of them in that quarter of the state. The whole country would need to be covered with these things for it to be viable.
　
It's good to get new "green" manufacturing jobs in the state. But, to use a liberal mantra, who is going to pay for them? All the green jobs were attracted here by big tax breaks. Subsidies in lib' speak. How are we going to make up the lost tax revenue from them not paying taxes? As Paper Hunter said this also applies to the tax breaks the operational wind generators are getting too. Sorry- I'm being sarcastic in that last bit.

I too am a believer in nukes. We should have had fusion plants going by now. Cheap energy is one of the main factors in the high standard of living we enjoy today. The environmentalist's want to take it away from us.
Have A Good Day
Steve A