What sort of country are we living in if we don't treasure our countryside?

"People have to realize that a 25 percent renewable energy standard by the year 2025 in Illinois amounts to thousands of wind turbines."

Judith Gap power also is a bargain for NorthWestern, at about 3.2 cents/kWh. However, wind power provides virtually none of NorthWestern's capacity requirements, and the utility needs on-call contracts and other means to ensure it meets load. The relationship between load and wind output is almost zero. That's a real issue for us.

Policies or political platforms that seek to constrain the development of a safe and reliable Australian uranium industry - and which rule out the possibility of climate-friendly nuclear energy - are not really serious about addressing climate change

Environmentalists have been promising for more than three decades that wind energy would be competitive if there was a "level playing field," but it survives only because the field has been tilted in its favor.

We're doing whatever we feel we can to stop development until such time as the medical concerns are (studied). We also have concerns with minimum distance separations-- we're aware some of the units could fail and cases where the blades turn so fast they hit the base of the tower and cause it to lose structural integrity. We've also heard about ice chunks falling off the blades in winter. We didn't initially support the (not-in-my-backyard) people, but maybe there's a valid reason why they don't want it in their backyards.

Wind turbines don't make good neighbors

In places like the UK there was never really enough land anyway and the government was crazy thinking anyone would want to have a wind turbine next to their house.

Industrial wind is almost the perfect enterprise for our era, as it produces no meaningful product or service but is subsidized up to 80 percent by rate and tax payers. Like many "celebrities," it is famous for being famous, not for its actual performance.

Faith-based initiatives like windpower symbolize the imaginative lacuna now at the heart of our national energy policy.

Throughout my experience, I could not substantiate a single claim developers made for industrial wind energy, including the one justifying its existence: that massive wind installations would meaningfully reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.

One can certainly concur with concerns about how our culture's fossil fuel combustion practices help accelerate the process of global warming—without uncritically agreeing that the intrusive nature of windpower technology is even a partial solution to the problem.

Unfortunately, proponents continue to tout wind energy as "the answer" while, in the fashion of "Jeopardy!" contestants, are unable to come up with the correct question.

Future technologies for new energy sources will not rely on raping our environment, ridgelines, prairies, and shorelines.

The green tag attached to windmills exempt them from environmental clearance which leads to mindless destruction of nature with impunity.

Although appealing to many, wind power is an extremely expensive, inefficient, and unreliable source of electricity, incapable of providing base load power. Wind's intermittency, variability, line loss, necessary back-up generation, transmission needs, and dispatch complexity limit the amount of electricity wind can secure. Ever larger mandates and subsidies will not make wind power more economically viable, as the European experience now demonstrates.

Federal tax benefits pay as much as 65% of the capital cost of wind power projects in the United States.

It's unfair to assume, I think, that there's no environmental effects from wind (energy). Until we get some firm data, the problem is, people are making multimillion-dollar investments with insufficient information.

There's no getting around it, (turbines) do kill birds and they do kill bats.

Those farms did not contribute at all to our peak demand - it had to be covered by other non-wind generation. Over the long term wind is very reliable but in the short term you can never count on it being there when you need it in forward forecasting.