Blow Dry

Does Rachel Maddow have any idea how idiotic that those commercials of hers are? Apparently not. My personal favorite is the one in which she's standing in the middle of this humongous (and no doubt heavily subsidized) wind farm and trying to sell us on the fact that THIS is somehow the answer to our energy and environmental needs. It's like, does she just not know the facts? a) That wind is highly intermittent and inefficient? b) That it is always in need of a fossil fuel back-up? c) That it is highly resource intensive (the fact that a lot of energy goes into its creation, the fact that you CAN make windmills out of steel but not vice versa)? d) That windmills have the second lowest power density level (only ethanol's is lower) of any major power source and that you would literally have to pave entire states in order to get the same amount of power as you get from fossil fuels, hydro, nuclear, etc.? e) That wind is significantly more expensive than fossil fuels? f) That when in fact you figure in the resource demands and necessary fossil fuel back-up, the carbon footprint really isn't any lower than fossil fuels and significantly higher than nuclear? g) That this type of energy on a mass scale would have significantly deleterious effects on wildlife and the environment (the cutting down of trees, the potential for forest fires, the construction of thousands of miles of power lines, the slaughtering of endangered species, etc.)? I mean, I know that the woman is a true-believer and all but maybe if she once and a while spoke to folks such as Bjorn Lomborg, Robert Bryce, and Vaclav Smil, it wouldn't be quite as embarrassing.