A New Study Takes The Wind Out Of Wind Energy
Wind energy’s carbon dioxide-cutting benefits are vastly overstated. Furthermore, if wind energy does help reduce carbon emissions, those reductions are too expensive to be used on any kind of scale.
Those are the findings of an exhaustive new study, released today, by Bentek Energy, a Colorado-based energy analytics firm.
Full Story: Forbes
Paul Higgins: Note that by too expensive the story talks about unless carbon is taxed or market price driven at US$33 a tonne or above. Australia is about to implement a carbon tax converting to an emissions trading scheme with pricing moving up to about this level
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