Saw an article not too long ago about the environmentally oriented Swedes burning trash for power. They even have to immport trash.
It is only a political position that wind power is out there. Long subsidized under PURPA and crosssubsidized by other sources internally, wind power is a bust.
Bust is putting it mildly. I have always said that these things don't farm the wind so much as farm the subsidies.
In my state the industrial wind industry was going nuts lobbying the legislature to extend (yet again) the state-sponsored subsidies, which we due to expire. Those are something like 20% of the federal subsidies, yet without them they claimed they'd go bust. So naturally the legislature caved and renewed the subsidies for another three years. After all, everyone knows it's "green".