Buried under the guise of “Green Energy”, the industrial wind turbine industry makes few comments about the real effect of the energy produced by IWT’s on the national electric grid and the difficulties of absorbing the irractic supply of energy both in terms of when it is available and how much is actually generated. A thoughtful and well researched paper has been written by Jon Boone from Oakland , Md. Mr Boone has been a formal intervenor in two Maryland Public Service Commission hearings from 2003 to the present and has produced a documentary, Life under a Windplant and developed a website www.stopillwind.org
To understand the limitations of wind technology, one should know how energy use enables complex modern society and, especially, how energy in the form of electricity is produced and transmitted to hundreds of millions of people on demand… More >>>
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