That's funny, Vestas and Clipper Wind are putting up Wind Generator factories in Colorado right now (at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars), and anywhere you go in Europe, you see wind generators. And they have a multi-BILLION dollar backlog of orders for wind generators. No, the technology has not been there for 50 years. There have been HUGE developments in bearings and generator technology for these beasts that make them much more reliable, productive and cost effective. And, I just interviewed 3 weeks ago for a job in northern CO for a company who is now able to mass produce solar panels that can generate electricity on the same cost per watt-hour basis as a coal fired power plant. And yes, as bigbill said, nuclear is part of the overall solution. Everyone talks like there is only ONE answer, like there was with oil. I think there is a multi-pronged approach, and I think man is able to figure out how to use all of them together so our energy needs are able to be met much more soundly than just relying on one fix for all...
