global warming and wind power? not so much...

I've been on a road trip to the Northwest and thought I'd make some observations. On the drive up here, I went past three or four wind farms and at each of them there were only, at best, 30% of the turbines going. Is that typical? I think from past observations driving past these things that it is. So how efficient is that? So much for wind power. We ought to be building nukes instead.

My destination was Winthrop, Washington on the east side of the Cascades. The weather is rather chilly here and the folks here have been telling me how late their Spring has been in arriving. Also, I was informed that the snow pack was greater than normal with the consequence that the mountain glaciers are building up again (for the second winter in a row). So I don't know that two years make a definitive trend, but this is definitely different from what the "global warming" obsessed media likes to report on.