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A vendetta against the wind industry
In his recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Robert Bryce continues his vendetta against the wind energy.
His piece criticizes the wind industry on two main points: “First, wind blows only intermittently and variably. Second, wind-generated electricity largely displaces power produced by natural gas-fired generators, rather than that from plants burning more carbon-intensive coal.”
Bryce contends that, “because wind blows intermittently, electric utilities must either keep their conventional power plants running all the time to make sure the lights don't ...
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