Tuesday, April 17, 2012

“Are the Merits of Wind Power Overblown?” (1997 op-ed)

 A 1997 editorial by Robert Bradley Jr. is reproduced at Master Resource

“Are the Merits of Wind Power Overblown?” (1997 op-ed: How does it read today?) — MasterResource:
Wind power has proven itself to be a perpetual “infant industry,” with its competitive viability always somewhere off on the horizon. Proponents have always argued for continued subsidies on the rationale that commercialization is within sight. In 1985 congressional hearings, for example, an executive of the American Wind Energy Association testified that “the goal for this industry . . . is the lowest-cost source of electricity, along with hydro, available to a utility by 1990.”
Read the entire article at masterresource.org

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