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Re:Denmark: 1,000 Megawatts Of Offshore Wind, And No Signs o... by Someone on Sunday April 14, 2013 @06:03PM (#5548534)
If 5 million Danes can afford to build X windmills, I don't see how 60-ish times 5 million US citizens can't afford to build 60-ish times X windmills.

Population density would be an argument (on average, higher population density means less wind power per capita), but there, New York probably has more land area nearby than Denmark.

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Re:Denmark: 1,000 Megawatts Of Offshore Wind, And No Signs o... by aj700 on Sunday April 14, 2013 @07:22PM (#5548825)
Yes, but Danes are quite prepared to pay 25% VAT and up to 62% income tax so that among many other things, The (evil statist) State can afford to buy hugely expensive turbines from Siemens just to avoid giving money to Arabs. And those loaded Norwegians.

Americans, apparrently, while in huge numbers, in thrall to Rand/Objectivism and the Kochs, are not.

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Re:Denmark: 1,000 Megawatts Of Offshore Wind, And No Signs o... by krschultz on Sunday April 14, 2013 @06:14PM (#5548581)
Wind density over shallow water is the real reason.
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