Mood of the Times

The New York Times has an article on wind energy, especially Sweden's efforts to generate 10% of their electricity from wind. The article is drenched in skeptical phrases: promising power source, with flaws, use of wind power in many European countries has stagnated, no longer a quirky alternative favored by environmentalists in Denmark and Germany, wind energy is coming under sharper scrutiny, makes wind a shaky replacement for more dependable, if polluting, energy sources, areas most suited for wind turbines [are] far from the coastal population centers that need the most electricity, unpredictable surges, people tend to get hyped up about it, very emotional, ...

The facts are presented pretty fairly, though. Hand wringing about the intermittency is resolved at the end of the article by pointing out the use of hydro-electric energy storage.