As a society we need to invest in infrastructure that will provide society with a good return on its investment. The enormous subsidies paid through our taxes and utility rates to renewable energy companies for unpredictable, unreliable and mostly unuseable power provides an excellent return on investment only to the beneficiary of the subsidy and not to the society investing. For society investing in renewables is a money losing, job and competitiveness-killing proposition. It is a classic example of the Broken Window Fallacy.

Provding further subsidies to renewable energy, is merely throwing good money after bad.

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This is a warning that the industry runs on subsidies. It has been shown to be unsustainable even in Denmark (the poster child for wind development) where manufacturing giant Vestas is on its knees http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-29/denmark-won-t-support-vestas-through-financial-hardship.html despite four decades of government support and protection, the unique asset of Sweden and Norway as “storage batteries”, and massive investment in coal-fired generators to keep the grid stabilized!

Denmark runs on coal not wind. It has condemned itself to fossil-fuel dependence, as has Germany which is now in a rush to replace nuclear with coal to keep the wind from blowing the grid.http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-25/windmills-overload-east-europe-s-grid-risking-blackout-energy

Nowhere has there been a proper cost/benefit analysis to show that the wind industry can live up to its “green” marketing. and even some former acolytes have seen the light, http://www.greenillusions.org/ pioneers a critique of alternative energy from an environmental perspective.

Data performance studies in many countries including the USA http://www.bentekenergy.com/WindPowerParadox.aspx show that the Laws of Thermodynamics are still in force on planet Earth. It is irresponsible to promote what is tantamount to perpetual motion machines.

The industrialization of precious freshwater ecosystems, particularly the minimally impacted forest/wetland watershed of Lake Superior, the cleanest of the Great Lakes, for such a demonstrably bad scheme is such an error in logical thinking it must be termed insanity.

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