(crossposted from DailyKos)

We've been pushing this whole Stranded Wind Initiative along for a few months now and we're finally getting traction. We've got a lovely collection of contributors, most of whom were harvested right here on DailyKos, we've got investors looking at our Freedom Fertilizer investment vehicle, again from DailyKos ...

And if it weren't for Iowa State Senator Jack Kibbie's interest the Democratic Party is completely oblivious to our existence, while we're getting fantastic support from our very conservative Republican representatives(!)

[Ed. note: resurrecting a two-year old topic from Dailykos]

A 1991 report by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) estimated potential US windpower generation at 10,777 million mWh, at that time nearly three times the electricity generated in the United States. A great deal has changed since that time, with improved technology lowering the kWh cost of electrcity generated from windpower, while the introduction of high resolution wind power density maps and growing cognizance of the need to exclude certain land types (urban areas, forested areas, environmentally sensitive lands) has limited the area available for development. Overall, the trend is towards lower costs (both economically and environmentally) and greatly expanded capacity.

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Energize America has joined 29 other organizations in writing to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to call on them to ensure that the stimulus package doesn't put tax increases on America's unborn, but

Most people really do not have the vaguest idea of the wind resource across the U.S. So it should come as little surprise that they always fall for lines such as "wind could do 10% of the US supply by 2020", or maybe 6%, or maybe 2% if you use some of the Energy Information Agency projections. Of course, the answer to "What is the U.S. wind capacity?" is slightly tricky, and it has less to do with the wind resource than most people might suspect.