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Windfarms take up far too much land for the power they give.

Oh, is that what you meant? Here, I was under the impression you meant it when you said anything which didn't produce the power-per-acre of a nuke was "silly."

If it was so silly you could refute it with facts instead of insults.

I simply responded in kind. If you want to replace your previous answer to the "what would it take" question, go for it.

But, why take my word for it? You could Google wind energy efficiency and decide for yourself, instead of assuming all our "conservative" friends know what they're talking about, when they're just blindly following each other and toeing the "if it looks green, it has to be stupid" party line.

Let's see we have an energy source that costs almost as much to build as a nuclear power plant, costs almost as much to maintain as a nuclear power plant, takes up much more space than a nuclear power plant (like 10 to 100 times the space), and produces an insignificant portion of the electricity (like 1/100 to 1/1000 the electricity). Sounds like a silly energy source to me.

Why take Googles word for it when I read the literature at the wind farm to see that wind power simply isn't a viable solution. Huge tracts of really expensive machinery with a peak production that's a fraction of what even a small gas turbine plant could produce are not the answer, when the technology gets to the point that it can at least keep up with yesterday's technology it's worth discussing going into production with. Right now wind power should still be relegated to the experimental stage. It's not that it won't ever be a good idea, it's that it's not a good idea now. Much like solar power, someday it'll be a good idea, but not now.

I'm not against wind power because it's green, nuclear power would be green if the liberals weren't generically against everything with the word "nuclear", I'm against it because the technology simply isn't there to make it a viable alternative energy source. Read your own link and see the painfully obvious data, wind power isn't there yet and is at least 2 leaps in technology from being there. That's not an anti-green position, that's an INFORMED position.