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Originally Posted by Xringer
Maybe only when they are trying to sell their product?
What I find most interesting is,
"After 30 years of development, wind produces only 2.3% of California's electricity."..
Which indicates (to me anyway) that our government can't get anything right..
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Nah, it doesn't have much to do with government, it's just that wind power wasn't really competitive until recently. Cost dropped to a fifth of what it was in 1980 by 2000 IIRC. From 1980 to 2004 there was only ~7GW of wind installed. From 2005 to 2009 there was ~28GW installed, w/ ~10GW of that being installed last year.