UK Researchers: Windmills are a "carbon-saving" scam

Gee, I wonder if this will affect any "green collar" jobs?

Small wind turbines attached to individual homes work fine unless you have lousy wind.

That's the upshot of a multi-site study called the Warwick Microwind Trial project, a year-long survey on the performance of roof-mounted turbines done in the U.K. done by Encraft, a low-carbon technology consulting firm.

The researchers picked 26 sites in the U.K where microturbines tied to the power grid were attached to people's homes to offset their electricity use. Many of the consumers clearly purchased the turbines to lower their fossil fuel energy use as some already had solar panels and ground-source heat pumps...

...the Encraft study, which came out last month, found that many of the turbines didn't meet manufacturers claims for power generation. Some turbines needed to go offline at times because of technical problems or complaints over noise.

"The gap between average performance (or expectation) and reality is much larger than people could reasonably expect," Encraft managing director Matthew Rhodes said in a summary...

You say the energy production of windmills is vastly overblown (heh)?

And you say the cultivation and production of biofuel requires more fuel than it produces?

And our exhaled Carbon Dioxide really isn't toxic?

And that President Obama just banned all offshore drilling, which could -- by itself -- be a $1.7 trillion stimulus package?

These Democrats are geniuses!