Good question, but the danger isn't in overloading - they can shut off the power they're getting easily enough. The problem is it's a tremendous waste. Wind po

Good question, but the danger isn't in overloading - they can shut off the power they're getting easily enough. The problem is it's a tremendous waste. Wind power is good, it's just extremely unreliable and storing it is a harder problem than you'd think. One of the regular users here, DaniFong, posted some good comments and articles on how difficult it is to store power. If you started at her profile and clicked around, she's made some quite insightful points on the topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DaniFong http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DaniFong