TIME Video: The Truth About Wind Power

“As the U.S. plots its energy strategy, what are the best options? Wind energy is renewable. But is it practical?”

http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,27456914001_1907002,00.html

Based on that, whether or not it's practical, it will not be economical if Duke Energy has its greedy claws in it.

From a July 3rd article:
Next week, Duke Energy Generation Services will announce its seventh wind-farm construction project in less than two years.

By year end, the Duke Energy Corp. subsidiary will have gone from no wind assets in 2006 to being among the nation’s top 10 wind-power producers.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1906507,00.html

Pop quiz: what source of power doesn't come out of the ground, doesn't burn and isn't radioactive? Hint: it contributed the most new electricity generation to the U.S. grid in 2008.


The answer is wind power, the technology that has become synonymous with going green. Companies that started out small, like Denmark's Vestas and India's Suzlon Energy, have become multinational giants selling steel and fiberglass wind turbines; even blue chippers like General Electric have identified wind power as a major revenue source for the future, while the construction and installation of wind turbines will employ workers here in the U.S. Investing in wind power, said President Barack Obama at a turbine factory in Iowa on Earth Day, "is a win-win. It's good for the environment; it's great for the economy."


More at: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1906507,00.html

"As the U.S. plots its energy strategy, what are the best options? Coal energy is renewable, in a few million years. But is it practical?

Well, perhaps for any surviving species, or ET settlers, after we kill off ourselves and most of life on earth.