Costs of 'going green' are subject to diminishing returns

It didn't take long for the renewable energy chickens to come home to roost on the
city of Anoka. After Anoka and 11 other cities agreed to shell out $3.6 million
to participate in a feel good wind energy project.

Anoka is currently in the process of erecting a monstrous eyesore windmill that
will replace a grand total of - are you ready for this?- 1% of the city's power!
Yes, a total of 1%! Enough wind energy will be produced to power the TVs and microwaves
of about 40 homes in the city. At that rate, the city would have been better off
to put a bunch hamsters on treadmills to power the city.

Now that the refurbished turbine is being installed, some members of the city council
are feeling a bit upset

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because the windmill isn't apparently shiny enough. Because the windmill is used,
it is worn and rusty, much to the consternation of the city fathers who must have
thought they were buying the tricked-out, chrome-on-chrome turbine like the kind
you see on the popular cable show "Pimp my Windmill."

Councilmember Mark Freeburg summed up the city's feelings when he deadpanned, "I
feel like we got hosed." That may be true, but the taxpayers go hosed when you
voted to fund this foolishness, Mr. Freeburg.

The cost of not going green is total destruction of the environment, along with the economy, and potentially all human lives.

There needs be no further discussion. We have to embrace Green Technology, a Green Economy, and a Green Environment.

California is a leader in going green and they have an economy in depression level unemployment and bankrupcy.