Ray - Excellent post!
It never ceases to amaze me that wind and solar power advocates Never provide full disclosure about how much their pet “green power” technologies Really cost.
It’s economic ROI math pure n simple.
RE: “art of a series of five posts:
To Get Wind Power You Need Oil
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3458518/posts
Reliability of Renewable Energy: Wind
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3458519/posts
Deep De-Carbonization Would Increase Electricity Costs 2090 Percent, Says J.P. Morgan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3458520/posts
Electricity Prices Soaring In Top Wind Power States
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3458521/posts
MidAmerican Energy customers rattled by electric rate hike
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3458522/posts"
And we learned here on FreeRepublic years ago that a good number of the wind turbines are offline for maintence or whatever and aren’t even moving when you drive by. Another poster followed that with “you would be surprised at the number that are moving are just for ‘show’.”
https://vtdigger.org/2016/04/29/sunedison-owner-of-sheffield-wind-farm-goes-bankrupt/