Midwest Chick's Place

 In the vein of boondogglers gonna boondoggle, the head of the Danish windmill giant, Vestas, has admitted publicly that wind power won’t get cheaper.  

Got one word–duh.

As the article points out, the only reason that wind power is looking even remotely competitive is because other fuel prices have gone up drastically.

Bloomberg

Manufacturers such as Vestas Wind Systems A/S are seeing losses pile up as orders collapse at a time when they should be capitalizing on the turmoil in natural-gas markets. To blame — at least in part — is the industry’s insistence that clean electricity can only get cheaper, according to Henrik Andersen, chief executive officer of the Danish wind giant.

“It made some people make the wrong assumption that energy and electricity should become free,” Andersen said in an interview in London. “We created the perception to some extent. So we are to blame for it. That was a mistake.”

Wind and solar were always touted as cheap, easy, good for the environment, and clean.  They are neither.  Nor are they steady.

And windmills are also bad for the environment (they are a step below solar, which is horrible).  From bird kills to deforestation to the fact that they are not biodegradable to stripping the rainforests, they are not the font of free environmentally friendly energy the greenies have been sold on for so long. And they are a being used as tax havens–public dollars going to private companies which don’t produce.

Windmills are a failed experiment.  Good money needs to stop being thrown after bad.