Without this kind of government-funded research programmes, it is highly unlikely that the Danish wind industry would have ever gotten off the ground. And considering the sway that the drill-and-burn lobby holds over Washington in general and the Repugs in particular, I seriously doubt that such a programme would have survived past the first US Congress committee.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
Also, of course, the fact that support has been yanked away, and has generally been inconsistent (sse still today the on/off nature of the PTC mechanism and the yearly uncertainty as to its renewal). In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
