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11 Oct '12, 4pm

Fact checking "Reason": @AWEA corrects Reason Foundation's recent falsehoods about #windpower. #cleanenergy

Fact check: Reason Foundation FAIL on wind and emissions Posted: 2012-10-11 Michael Goggin, AWEA Manager-Transmission Policy A number of fossil fuel-funded groups recently set out to attack wind energy by paying for a new report (http://reason.org/news/show/ the-limits-of-wind-power ) claiming wind energy is difficult to integrate onto the utility system and doesn’t provide the expected benefits. The only problem? The Reason Foundation’s analysis ended up producing results that contradict those claims and actually support the opposite conclusions. Despite using a seriously flawed methodology that understates the benefits of wind and overstates the challenge of integrating wind onto the grid, the analysis found that adding wind to the grid greatly reduces emissions of harmful pollutants and that wind energy can readily and reliably provide 50% or more of our electricity. - ...

Full article: http://www.awea.org/blog/index.cfm?customel_dataPageID_16...

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