Sunday, October 7, 2012

Wind power does not represent progress, it's a step backwards.


By FK SULLIVAN
Publication: The Day

If wind power is so great, why did the world so quickly embrace modern means of energy generation as soon as it became available?

The May 29 editorial, "Clean Energy Island," supporting wind turbines off the coast of Block Island in Long Island Sound referred to such "wind farm" proposals as "progress." As a person who spent almost 50 years in the electrical power generation and distribution business I have to conclude that either The Day Editorial Board knows absolutely nothing about electrical power generation or has redefined "progress" to mean taking us back to where we were in the 1800s or the previous centuries, when mankind depended on unreliable power sources because that was all that was available.

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