It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

My studies suggest that at a time when America needs large amounts of low-cost reliable power, wind produces puny amounts of high-cost unreliable power. We need lower prices; wind power raises prices.

The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the farm well... But the windmills we are talking about today are not your grandmother’s windmills. Each one is typically 100 yards tall, two stories taller than the Stature of Liberty, taller than a football field is long.

These people are not as much [wind] developers as they are salesmen. Their product sounds good — and green — in theory, but it is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

The Government’s [UK] thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is “worth sacrificing to save the planet” is an insult to science, economics and politics. But the greatest insult is to aesthetics. The trouble is that aesthetics has no way of answering back.

Protecting the Oregon Trail would require little effort if the location of the Oregon Trail were considered in the planning of the projects. But few developers care about or plan to protect the known historic sites to reduce the impact on the Oregon Trail. ...when public funds are used to destroy irreplaceable historic public treasures, perhaps we should be a little more careful and consider whether and how we should proceed.

All too often I hear an enthusiastic statement that wind generators will replace the power plant and become the singular source of our energy supply. Despite what the infrequent visitor to western Kansas may think, the wind does not always blow. Consumers want to turn on the television or do the wash at any time, illustrating that the demand for electricity is present even when the wind is not blowing.

In very simple terms, if wind farms are the answer, the question must be: how can we waste the most money in an utterly useless exercise?

As new information surfaces, and the lack of supporting information becomes increasingly clear, this economically flawed industry is being exposed for the exploitive operation it is — one that makes a whole lot of money by robbing taxpayers in the form of public subsidizing of its construction, and then selling the power back to consumers at premium prices.

It would take thousands of these clean-energy, landscape-marring machines [wind turbines] to generate only a slice of the region's power needs. Consider a recent Department of Energy Study. It shows that nationwide, moving to 10 percent renewable energy would still see coal burning increase substantially because of rapidly growing electrical demand.

These are not farms, one doesn’t farm wind anymore than one farms water in a hydroelectric dam or farms neutrons in an atomic plant.

Wind power is at least twice as expensive as power from conventional sources and it's less than half as valuable because it's not always available when you need it."

The first glimpse of the turbines [Weymart Wind Farm] from state Route 6 presents a surreal image like something from a Road Warrior movie.

Based on the facts I've seen is that it's [wind energy] not a very viable option because it's very expensive electricity and of course it's not reliable, it depends on the wind

The major limitation, of course, is wind's intermittency -- its lack of "dispatchability." Quite simply, you can never count on it. You can't even predict it from hour to hour with 100 percent accuracy and the windiest sites can go calm for days.

It would be impossible -- i-m-p-o-s-s-i-b-l-e -- to run a contemporary electric grid on wind power alone. Its role will remain marginal and supplementary. At bottom, wind is still a medieval technology.

As the nation moves to some sort of carbon reduction strategy, no matter our individual perspectives on the topic, the advance of wind and solar energy generation, under the broad label of "green energy," has come to Wyoming with a "gold rush" pace - and almost more concerning - "gold rush" mentality. Seemingly every acre - sage grouse core area, private, state and federal lands, important viewsheds and otherwise - is up for grabs in the interest of "green, carbon-neutral technologies" no matter how truly "brown" the effects are on the land. Functionally, it is like taking a short cut to work through a playground full of school children and claiming "green" as a defense because you were driving a Toyota Prius.

The government is more interested in making symbolic gestures rather than really tackling greenhouse gas emissions. The wind farm will only produce a very small amount of clean energy, but it will have a terrible impact on the environment.