Greens: Replace dams with wind, gas

The New York Times reports to day that the Sierra Club wants to raze dams in the Northwest and replace them with

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... wind turbines in more places, to help balance power generation by ensuring that some are always in an area where the wind is blowing, or relying more on the Northwest’s natural gas plants in combination with energy-saving measures.

This is, of course, another half-baked, hare-brained idea designed more to cause energy chaos and shortages than to provide "clean energy" and help the "endangered salmon." The erratic nature of wind power cannot be remedied by more windmills in more places because... well... wind power is erratic. Just because the wind isn't blowing here doesn't mean it's blowing there. Then there are the problems of all those expensive transmission lines that would need to be installed for the extra windmills, the eyesore nature of windmills, their large footprint, the migratory bird-Cuisinart controversy, additional taxpayer subsidies and more. And what's this, the Sierra Club wants to replace low greenhouse gas emitting hydropower with fossil fuels? Are they serious? What about the planetary emergency? Is saving salmon more important than saving the world from the dreaded global warming? Didn't Kofi Oil-for-Food Annan just say that global warming kills 300,000 people every year? And WWAGS? Energy-saving measures? Now we get to the nut-cutting, as Lyndon Johnson used to say. "Energy-saving" is green-speak for rationing — and isn't that what the greens really want?