@EthonRaptor Dana Nuccitelli from Skeptical Science
explains at the Guardian
The Department of Energy has concluded
that the total economic benefit of adding 1,000 megawatts of wind
energy in Kansas would exceed $1bn over a 20-year period, including
$2.7m per year in payments to landowners, $2.9m per year in local
property tax revenue, thousands of construction jobs, and 432 new local
long-term jobs. All evidence indicates that continuing to add wind
energy will have little impact on electricity rates and will benefit the
local economy.
The question now is whether Kansas is willing to sacrifice those benefits for the sake of the coal industry.
Eli is with
HL on this one
I don't think they are, actually.
ReplyDeleteThey'll kill it because it's hippy liberal lefty anti-american technology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Kansas
ReplyDeletestates wind farms in Kansas growing at a 75% annualized rate.
"They'll kill it because it's hippy liberal lefty anti-american technology."
ReplyDeleteWhich is dumb, because all the anti-American in this world is what defines America these days, which proves HL's point.
--cynicus