The Wind Energy Disaster - Costly, Unreliable, Bird Killing, and Maintenance Nightmare

Apparently our energy policy has been blown off course by a group of environmentalists, eager eco-entrepreneurs, and public policy makers who seem to have their heads in a day dream rather than facing the reality of our intense demand for inexpensive energy in this country. It seems one of the worst culprits isn't solar after all even with the big mega bankruptcy headlines of companies with guaranteed taxpayer loans from the DOE. The real challenge is wind energy, it isn't working and the sector is in denial and taking a religious stance and won't budge.
NPR had a rather telling segment on the other day about Wind Farms and Wind Turbine Technician shortages on March 7, 2012 entitled; "Oklahoma Needs Qualified Wind Power Technicians," by Logan Layden which stated; "Wind power is all the rage in Oklahoma and could be a boon in a state that has been hit hard by unemployment. The problem is finding qualified people to work in the industry," and get this these jobs are well over $20 per hour too.
It appears the 4-week intensive technician classes aren't putting out the quality of technician needed, and despite what people think these wind turbines are problematic maintenance nightmares, who would have thought? Well, our think tank has been warning about the high-costs of unreliable wind turbine energy for years now.
There was a recent article in the Wall Street Journal not long ago about the huge numbers of birds these wind turbines are killing. The article appeared on March 7, 2012 and was titled; "Windmills vs. Birds - About 70 golden eagles are killed every year by turbines at California's Altamont Pass, reports the LA Times." But the number of reality check articles against the previous onslaught of pro-wind is significant for instance on March 11, 2012 there was a piece in the Post Gazette in Pittsburgh titled; "Obama's energy abyss - He keeps wasting money on renewable," by Jack Kelly.
Interestingly enough, out here in the Coachella Valley in CA we have an abundance of wind turbines in the nearby city of Palm Springs and since they are unreliable, they are building a real power plant next door for when the wind isn't blowing, one which puts out a slight amount of emissions as it is natural gas fired. Still, apparently it allows the wind energy folks a new life-line as it is supplementing the insufficient and unreliable wind power so that it doesn't fall flat on its face or become so expensive no one can justify it regardless of their devotion to their new global warming religion.