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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: TimF who wrote (29500)9/4/2008 3:06:26 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Re: [And wind will likely 'require' less then most...] "That's a rather questionable statement."

I don't think so.

Wind turbines are fairly 'low-tech' (by that I mean of course: the engineering principles are well understood and companies do not need taxpayer financing to develop prototypes or new designs), unlike nuclear (where new process and designs require major, major financing) or even solar photo-electric (where a great deal of chip design work and thin film engineering is done at Universities... some with taxpayer supplied grants and such).

Improvements to create a truly NATIONAL electric grid would be extremely expensive of course... but would ALSO benefit any and all energy generation systems - not just wind.

And of course, wind power systems would have no need at all for taxpayer-financed "disaster insurance coverage" or extremely long-term storage of high level radioactive waste (a la nuclear) ... or "clean coal research" or any such stuff.
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