Wind turbines - going strong 20 years on

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1. Yes - going "strong" for 20 years

The wind industry has been going strong for 20 years; but let's see what they've accomplished in the USA. The reference below is for 2007, so it is a few years out of date; so it only covers 13 years of the 20 years that the industry has been "going strong".

If we look at the 2007 chart for energy "flow" in the USA, courtesy of the scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:

https://str.llnl.gov/Sep09/simon.html

we see from the graphic just above the heading "Capturing the Big Picture" that wind supplies 0.31 units of energy out of the total of 40.46 units of energy for the entire electric sector. Hence wind supplies 0.77% So the actual performance record for the wind industry is to get us *less* than 1% of our electric generation capacity in a time period that is greater than a decade.

Tell me again how wind is the quick way to electric energy independence....

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