When will this Wind Turbine madness stop? Listen! Each wind turbine must be subsidized $245,000 each year, every year, by some poorly informed government. England, Denmark, the Netherlands or in this case, it’s our own tax and spend government.

Wind turbines don’t work when there is too little wind. Or too much wind. Wind turbines require gas turbine backup generators, if there’s too little or too much wind. And when the wind turbines are broken, which is all too often.

Would not it be far simpler to merely place an adjustable energy import tax on all foreign energy imports? And to hell with the Saudi oil lobbyists like James Baker. An adjustable energy import tax would spur domestic production as well as domestic conservation. What could be simpler?

Google, tell us it’s not so! Tell us that you have not fallen for these wind farm/biofuels flim flam artists.

George Meredith MD
Virginia Beach

For example to generate lift you have to create drag and the last time i looked 30,000 ft of any cable (and conductor to get the power out) weighs quite a bit. Just to lift the cable before you have extracted any energy means creates drag and that means your nice kite is no longer flying vertically, but at say 45 degrees to the ground.

The company want their kites to be in the jetstream, so suddenly they need the cable to be 1.5 times longer, which means you have even more weight to keep flying. Of course as soon as you extract energy from the wind you are slowing down the wind and this creates extra drag over the bit that keeps you aloft. Lets be optimistic and say that the kite is now flying at an angle of 30 degrees to the ground at this point. If they want to stay in the jetstream their cable is now 90,000 ft (???) long. In reality most of would be on the ground.