CapeCodToday Blog Chowder

Your clouds are never dark because the wind did not blow for a week, or a month.
I was born in McLean Gray County Texas in 1930, Black duster country in Black duster days. My father was the only superintendent of drilling, production for an independent oil company, oil was $1.00 /Barrel, and Gas was $0.06 /MCF.
We lived with no professionally electricity until my 15th year. We had a Windmill for water and a Wind charger and natural gas for light and heat. I remember those hot, still days that I had to haul water to Mother to cook and clean with and no wind charger produced electricity. I finally hooked the generator of an old car to a Maytag Washer gasoline motor and generated enough to listen to the radio.
At best, it is only an intermittent supplement to plant generated electricity, which is subject to fire, storm or vandal damage before they pay for themselves.

"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can
any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is
preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant,
and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own
weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders."
-- Samuel Adams (letter to James Warren, 4 November 1775)