Uh oh, North sea wind power a hopeless quest – it’s all about the foundations | Watts Up With That?

Uh oh, North sea wind power a hopeless quest – it’s all about the foundations | Watts Up With That?: "Even in a boom, wind farms would have been unaffordable — with their economic and ecological rationale blown away. In an era of austerity, the policy is doomed, though so many contracts have been signed that the expansion of wind farms may continue, for a while. But the scam has ended. And as we survey the economic and environmental damage, the obvious question is how the delusion was maintained for so long. There has been no mystery about wind’s futility as a source of affordable and abundant electricity — so how did the wind-farm scam fool so many policymakers?"

Simple answer: they weren't fooled, they stood to profit.