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Re: 10 myths about wind (4.00 / 3)
11. Intermittence: the wind "stops" and what then?

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  1. Every MW of wind capacity needs a corresponding MW of back-up because of (11)

  2. Wind gets government subsidies (= misallocation of resources, see marketista handbook).

  3. Wind is not Serious™ - it's just OK for fancy niche applications and can't scale up to industrial level.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Sep 23rd, 2010 at 02:51:30 PM EST
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