Idiot Wind

President Obama blows, and the scientific community is united in that fact, into Central Iowa today to tout the benefits of tax incentives and government investments for wind energy.

Obama will be in Newton, at TPI Composites.

The Washington Free Beacon reports that TPI has some notable connections to the White House through Element Partners, one of its key investors. 

One of Element’s operating partners is former Pennsylvania Governor and Democratic National Committee chairman Ed Rendell.

(Ed Rendell is pictured with Obama).

During his tenure as governor, Rendell appointed Kathleen McGinty as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. McGinty is also an operating partner at Element. …

Dr. Karl Hausker, McGinty’s husband, is a former deputy assistant administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency. He also represented the EPA on the White House Climate Change Task Force.

Cozy, but even more concerning is, despite tens of billions in subsidies, wind turbines still generate less than 3% of US electricity.

Wind has never been able to compete economically with traditional energy, and there is no credible evidence that it will be able to in the foreseeable future.