The Fully Charged Show presented by the guy from Red Dwarf certainly can weigh in: https://youtu.be/yaC1qgXaRvE?t=5m55s https://youtu.be/yaC1qgXaRvE?t=5m55s S

The Fully Charged Show presented by the guy from Red Dwarf certainly can weigh in: https://youtu.be/yaC1qgXaRvE?t=5m55s https://youtu.be/yaC1qgXaRvE?t=5m55s So it seems like Americans are ambling along with prototypes, meanwhile, in Europe, there is Statoil putting wind farms in very deep water off Scotland, not as some prototype but fully for profit. Regarding why not use the vast American interior, really it comes down to quality of wind. Exceptional this may be in Wyoming (it is), the winds out at sea are four times more productive if the aforementioned episode of Fully Charged is to be believed. Quite a few recent episodes of aforementioned show have been about wind, check the Orkney special, parts 1 and 2, as in Orkney there is population of 22000 and too much renewable energy flowing in. So what do you do with it? This show answers that plus all of the usual pertinent points about storage and how there really is no need for a baseline of coal/nucular if we get the car batteries and powerwalls in place. They are also making hydrogen from wind and sending that off to the mainland, compressed and in usable quantities. Allegedly the wind off the U.S. Eastern seaboard is good enough to power the whole world.