An even bigger ‘flop’ than you ever imagined…
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Study: Wind Farms Even More Expensive And Pointless Than You Thought
Breitbart.com
James Delingpole
5 July 2015
The cost of wind energy is significantly more expensive than its advocates pretend, a new US study has found: available here.
If you believe this chart produced by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), then onshore wind is one of the cheapest forms of power – more competitive than nuclear, coal or hydro, and a lot more than solar.
But when you take into account the true costs of wind, it’s around 48 per cent more expensive than the industry’s official estimates – according to new research conducted by Utah State University.
“In this study, we refer to the ‘true cost’ of wind as the price tag consumers and society as a whole pay both to purchase wind-generated electricity and to subsidize the…
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