The electricty answer is not entirely blowin' in wind

In 1962, songwriter Bob Dylan composed “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.” It was a Vietnam War protest song suggesting the ambiguous answer to ending war and living in peace and harmony was “blowin’ in the wind”…somewhere.

Today, wind power is an important part of our nation’s electricity generating system and it will be essential in the decades ahead. The question is how much of it can we reasonably produce to meet our nation’s growing electrical demands?

While people support wind power they aren’t hip about seeing thousands of additional acres lined with rows of 500-foot “windm...