As STT followers are acutely aware, wind power is an economic and environmental fraud. Because wind power can only ever be delivered at crazy, random intervals – and, therefore, never “on-demand” – it will never be a substitute for those generation sources which are – ie hydro, nuclear, gas and coal (see our posts here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here).
Were it not for government mandates – backed by a constant and colossal stream of subsidies (see our post here) – wind power generators would never dispatch a single spark to the grid, as they would never find a customer that would accept power delivered 30% of the time (at best) on terms where the vendor can never tell customers just when that power might be delivered – if at all (see our post here).
Ultimately, it’ll be…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Nov 13, 2014 @ 08:30:03
They wouldn’t if the externalities were costed properly so he like you must be advocating an ETS or a carbon tax!
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Nov 13, 2014 @ 10:05:53
Thanks, it will be something of the coincidence of this purported externalities exactly equally the cost differential of wind with more conventional power sources.
Wind is intermittent and require a backup power station as baseload. These points were pointed out by Jevons in 1865.
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Nov 13, 2014 @ 10:22:56
Jim,
the basic point is without externalities being properly costed there will always have to be subsidies.
An ETS/Carbon tax which overcomes this should mean little to no subsidies. If some renewables can swim then I doubt if they would still get subsidies when all the others do not need them.
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