Briefly, Regarding Windpower

I have assumed, correctly I think, that people want very badly to exploit alternative energy sources. By alternative, I mean “not fossil fuels.” It is very tempting to add nuclear to the category, since, if we had more practical alternatives, nuclear would immediately be taken off the table. While “utility scale” wind generation is growing rapidly, it is years and billions of dollars away from the needed degree of implementation. This has left poor jokers like myself to consider household scale alternative energy production. This is a topic I spend way too much time thinking about particularly considering that I can hardly afford anything more than the most trivial household generator. But, apparently I am not alone. The linked article details just how impractical if not imprudent and how unaffordable household generation systems are. But, by virtue of all these points, it illustrates how desperate people are for alternative energy sources—because they buy the systems despite the great impracticality.