Wind energy

Wind energy is being shamelessly hyped by profit-making outfits that are being granted outrageous public subsidies. I just heard this morning a local radio commercial pumping some new juco curriculum in "wind energy technology." Wind genuinely has some limited application as a boutique power source, but beyond that it's a politically-driven boondoggle of the first order. If you want extremely expensive electricity, that is also unreliable, and requires covering the land with windmills and transmission lines, then wind is perfect. Solar is similar. Nuclear, on the other hand, is the real deal, vastly superior in every respect.

If you have any interest in this, this slide show is very good, put together by somebody with the technical expertise to know what he's talking about. It has to be viewed full screen. As it says, don't use the usual triangle symbol in the below center (the usual one that toggles between Go and Pause). Use the smaller triangle controls on each side of that to step forward and back at your own pace, or use your keyboard arrow keys.

Byron