“The thing about
money is that when you have it you don’t need it and when you need it you don’t
have it,” my grandfather used to tell me. He could have said the same thing
about wind power. It’s most abundant when demand for energy is lowest and least
abundant when demand is highest. No amount of subsidy, no amount of federal or
state regulation can change this simple fact.
Because of this,
wind power can never live up to its advocates’ promises.
They would have us
believe that subsidizing wind energy can improve U.S. energy security. But since wind
turbines can’t be strapped to the top of your car, it isn’t clear how.
Most of America’s
electrical power is produced from domestic energy sources,
with coal, natural gas and hydroelectric accounting for 75 percent of our total
power generation. The United States is either self-sufficient or soon will be
in all of them.
Nuclear power,
which provides 19 percent of our power, is the only major electric power source
in which the United States isn’t self-sufficient. But with 40 percent of the
world’s recoverable reserves of uranium held by longstanding allies Canada and
Australia, we don’t need to be….To Read More….
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