You're the one playing with numbers. You're the one who keeps on bringing up Altamont Pass, as if it's the end-all measure of wind power's viability. What is your point? Is it that a 1970s nuke plant is more efficient than a 1980s wind plant? Fine. I'll concede that. Happy now?
Maybe you need to deal with NOW instead of imaginary projections.
Altamont Pass is not "NOW." For someone who claims to have done so much "research," you're awfully reluctant to let go of those Altamont Pass turbines when trying to make your points.
As biblewonk said, maybe you need to pull your head out of your 1980's data and realize that windpower is here now, especially if you're going to presume to tell the rest of us to "deal with NOW."
How so. The Rush Limbaugh types don't seem to know what the word means. Efficency is a measure of the amount of energy lost in the conversion but even that is not relevent to the cost of the energy.