This is a letter to the editor written on April 22, 2010, by Dave Miller (US Navy, Retired) from Lexington Twp., Maine.
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A Copenhagen News Paper reported that an increase in the demand for coal, needed to plug the gap left by underperforming wind farms, resulted in Danish carbon emissions rising by 36 percent in the year 2006. The Danish are leaders in wind energy, but their experience suggests that wind energy is inefficient, expensive, and not even green. Denmark has now restricted wind energy projects to off shore development only.
Der Spiegel reported that despite over 20,000 wind turbines in Germany, their CO2 emissions haven’t been reduced by a single gram. And our own Wall Street Journal said that in order to cover inconsistencies of the wind power on the German grid, their gas consumption for power generation has more than doubled between 1990 and 2007.
So I ask: Why we should make the same mistakes they have?
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