Reply #102: As I said above ...

[Mumblefratz]

You can't take what currently sources probably less than 1% of our energy needs and realistically suggest that the entire country could be supplied with that source.

I've yet to hear of any actual source with any scientific basis suggest otherwise.

With all due respect to the governor of Montana, he is a politician and in all likelihood is lobbying for GE to setup turbine development in MT. You got anything in writing? I'll even accept Wiki.

Here's another wiki article that suggests that the max worldwide wind capacity is about 1.5% of worldwide electricity usage. Again order of magnitude that's in the same ballpark as I used above.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power

Don't forget that is *current* electricity usage. If we were to suddenly replace the gas powered car with an electric car then we now need to supply that power from this new source of electricity as well. Does that double or triple our current usage? I don't know but it most definitely would be an increase.