An illuminating essay that shows why it's important to get your CO₂ emissions certificates right as well as your turbine targets.

The article argues that because wind turbines mean more CO2 credits can be sold, they don't actually work.

But the whole point of a trading market is that projects that save emissions can sell credits. Of course the total number of credits have to be reduced predictably for the price to stay high.

To conclude that turbines aren't helping the environment is nonsense. And to imagine that the price of reductions with turbines will stay the same ignores that wind technology prices keep going down.

All that said, the point that we should concentrate on insulation is absolutely correct.

Posted by: Daniel Haran on February 14, 2009 8:24 AM

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