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To: Yogizuna who wrote (139412)	8/5/2008 10:35:05 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Respond to of 306849

Makes sense to me. It's got a positive ERoEI when used in the right locales. I say fund Boone and see where it goes....<NG>

To: Yogizuna who wrote (139412)	8/5/2008 10:55:22 PM
From: nnillionaire	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Yogi <In the early 1900's they were using wind power when the technology was much more primitive, so why not now?> All energy sources have both Pros and Cons. Coal is cheap but dirty, gas is cleaner but more expensive, solar isn't yet efficient enough, etc. Wind power is clean and relatively inexpensive. But the rap on wind farms is that they are visually unattractive & noisy (Not In My Back Yard), AND wind farms are true killing zones for migratory birds. Routes/ areas of optimal steady winds that drive those turbine generators tend to be the same wind routes favored by millions of migrating birds twice per year. Utilities execs don't seem prone to force these issues with the environmentalists, animal rights groups, and local citizen groups, as those groups have proven very formidable. I guess they plan to let Boone Pickens fight for the windmills.