This is what is never said about wind farms.

The Taxpayer pays to offset the losses on wind farm. Had the Federal Government not given away tax payer dollars to make a wind farm profitable, there would be no wind farms. All Wind Farms are tied to a transmission line. It serves two purposes. Provide power to start and transport energy produced.

6 am on site 145 towers. Absolutely still. Only Birds flying around. Sun rises ...Earth heated ... wind picks up, computers tell the motors to turn on. Tons of metal and fiberglass start to turn. Wind speed reaches a point where the blades keep the propeller turning. Production is OFF peak. Sun sets, wind dies down. Wind farm goes to sleep. Computers consume power until the wind reaches the desired speed again. Guess where that power comes from?

In most cases a fossil fuel plant producing power at the end of that transmission line. In other words no power plant, no transmission line, no intertie to the wind or solar farm. I know of few wind farms who get power from power plants getting production from Hydro. I'm talking all of North America. These people do not know what their talking about. They have never been to the base of a tower, much less 200 plus feet off the ground. Without fossil fuel, most of the country is in the dark.

There currently is no answer for an across the board elimination of fossil fuel production.