Wind power--Wyoming blows

But...but...but...stupid Tom prattles endlessly about how it costs $40 trillion a week to maintain one wind turbine...and Boiler babbles about "boilerplate," or something...and Millerscum says that wind turbines are liars.

How can you use crummy ol' reality to argue against the erudite statements of these learned conservatives?

Kevin, would you please explain why EVERY Liberal writer uses solar and wind farm nameplate capacity to calculate homes powered?  

I didn't use name plate in my domestic example.  I used percent of electric grid which includes all sources of power including fossil fuels.    

boilerman, can you explain to me  how states can get half their power from wind when the wind doesn't always blow...and can have their electric costs be sitting at or below the national average?   Because you are on record saying that isn't possible .   And yet data says otherwise.    This is no longer speculation about the future.    

wind energy works at a competitive price and creates high paying jobs....and doesn't create greenhouse gases that destroy our coasts and threaten our fresh water supply

PJ, some countries and states get much of their power from wind and solar, but only if they have geographically near coal, solar, hydro, or nuclear plants in adjacent states or countries.

Kevin has been baffled by the word "nameplate" since I first brought it up 8 years ago.

So then whats the problem?    

You put hydro power by Niagara Falls and the Hoover Damn.  You put solar power in the southwest.  You put wind in the great plains and on ocean coasts.   Why would any sane person be against that if its cost effective, non-polluting, and creates domestic jobs?     

Can you explain why there are purple giraffes on the moon?

Boiler, the energy expert, doesn't know about those thingies called transmission lines.

The reason why some people are against sustainable energy--even to the point of gross, idiotic illogic, like Boiler and stupid Tom--is the idiological mandates of their conservative masters, who are in turn slaves of the fossil fuel industry,

They fear that they will become obsolete, and will no longer be vacuuming the wallets of ordinary Americans. I mean, really, guys. How much money have you put in their pockets over the years? Naturally, they want to keep you in thrall. But why should you want to go along with that?

Still baffled by at simple concept.