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Are wind subsidies a price worth paying?

Speaking as someone who lives quite close to several turbines already. I think we have to realize that any energy is no longer cheap energy, the cost of wind energy is currently high compared with some other forms, but we are in a development stage with wind energy and in some point in the future I have no doubt it will be more cost competitive. what wind energy and other renewables give us is energy security. we must get away from reliance on imported energy. What was missing from the Donald Trump evidence was the fact that people playing golf on his new course would have very limited opportunity to actually see the offshore wind turbine development, as the course is based among sand dunes and the turbines at least a mile offshore. I speak as someone who drives past it every day.

2 May 2012

1:04 pm