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...but true, original Money article link is dead

Worth a close read, however, is the web article pointed to in my second link:

Unpredictable wind energy - the Danish dilemma

With limited reserves of only oil and gas and the perceived onset of global warming, Denmark has a great incentive to develop new technologies for exploiting alternative sources of renewable energy and reducing energy demand. One of its many options is the harnessing of wind energy - a route that it has explored in great detail. This report describes some serious problems encountered in the extensive deployment of wind turbines in Denmark, and briefly summarises published accounts of the experiences and opinions of variously implicated Danish and foreign organisations and bodies.


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Newspaper headlines:

Different aspects of the development are suggested by the headlines in many leading Danish newspaper reports: ["Subsidies to turbines out of control"], ["Minister in conflict with the law"], ["Gold for turbine owners"], ["Electricity users led by the nose"], ["Fear of disqualification in the fight against wind turbines"], ["Local politicians benefit from wind projects"], ["Town council majority reported for tinkering with turbines"], ["Power plants: Impossible to check turbine owners"], ["Auken consulting about CO2 deception"], ["Buttered folk to capture customers for district heating"], ["Wind turbine fairytale for billions"], ["Electricity customers cheated of billions"], ["Openly cheating"], ["Turbine swindle"], ["Charge of cheating with turbines"], ["Off-shore turbines cost electricity customers five billion"], ["Electric shock"], ["New billion bill to electricity users"], ["Tax bomb under help for power plants"], ["Denmark’s most superfluous billion investment, thinks Mayor Britta Christensen"] (Krogsgaard, 2001b).


(My emphasis in bold, above)

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