Wind is in need of a bailout






A just-published study by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, "Texas Wind Energy: Past, Present and Future," says that to achieve even modest amounts of wind energy in that state alone would cost rate- and taxpayers at least $60 billion through 2025. That includes transmission costs, production costs, subsidies, tax breaks, economic disruption costs and grid management costs.

Europe, held up as a model of eco-friendly policies, is finding alternative energy to be an expensive and uneconomical proposition. According to estimates by the Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research, green subsidies will cost German electricity consumers nearly 27 billion euros in the next two years. Each of the 35,000 solar jobs in Germany is subsidized to the tune of 130,000 euros.







On cloudy and windless days, solar and wind are useless and require conventional power sources as backup. Output is not steady and cannot be increased on demand. You can't make the sun shine brighter or the wind blow harder during peak periods.

The Europeans and the Japanese long ago solved the problem of nuclear waste, reprocessing most of it into new fuel and safely storing what it can't, making nuclear power a renewable resource. It also removes billions of tons of greenhouse gases, waste that also finds its way into our lungs.

Nuclear power means jobs, clean air, energy independence and keeping money here at home.


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