Originally Posted By: Iowegian
My electricity is now 17 cents per kwh on order to pay for all the nee wind turbines and power lines.
Electric power is some of the most inefficient (power line loss) and costly.
I'm willing to bet that your increases are not exactly due to the wind turbines themselves, it has to do with the incentives and payment scales paid to the people/companies who are investing in the wind turbines. The "secret" is that the electric company pays/credits the energy producer an insane markup- in Indiana for example, if I put in a large PV array and "sold" the electricity surplus it to the power company thru a grid-tied inverter, the kWH credit I got is paid at $0.30/kWH, where as my electric cost is around $0.113/kWH. The money to pay out the credit comes thru increased rates to the end users, not the direct cost of the wind turbines and power lines.
Also, AC power is actually one of THE most efficient power sources we currently use- only DC power really has the power line loss and expensive cost... Edison really didn't have a clue and did his best to destroy and discredit the man that did have a clue... Nikola Tesla. Our world would likely not resemble anything we currently know if it had not been for Tesla.