[newgeezer]

You're disingenuous comparison of cars that have reached the end of their useful life and windmills that haven't shows how wrong your position is.

There was nothing disingenuous about it. Those Altamont Pass turbines are 20 years old. Comparing those antique, 500 KW toys to the latest technology is like comparing today's cars to the Model 'T'.

But, it's becoming all the more apparent that you want very much for wind energy to be silly. If you read up on it, I'm confident you'll see that it isn't. But, if you're happy to go along with the crowd, there's nothing I can do about it.

[discostu]

they were jsut commenting on how many are turned off at any given time, no comparing. And even in the modern wind farms a lot of turbines are turned off at any given time because they need to be tuned to particular wind speeds and won't be on if the wind isn't going the right speed.

It's becoming all the more apparent that you use canned responses. I want wind energy to be good, but it's not there yet. I've read up on it enough to know that the tech still needs development. There's no shame in admitting the truth, the technology has a lot of promis, but right now it's all promise.