Ed, you are fully right in your outlay of energy production.
Wind energy is unlikely to be used without back-up from gas, or even gasoline (diesel), which can also produce at a press of a button and be turned of likewise.
But wind and solar energy can reduce the the annual cost of electricity production. Solar energy would be easier to produce in hot countries, wind energy in Britain and northern Europe.
I am firmly convinced that before long we will see renewed research into these two forms of energy production, as research can provide new models, which are more capable and efficient.
The present wind turbines are too big and fragile.
It would not surprise me if, for example, a new replacement for Pfizer went into such research; and it could be the new "big one" of the future, the long-searched-for company that researches and finds patented models that could be produced here in Kent and Britain and sold world-wide.
Creating thousands of jobs!
