Predictions Favored Solar Over Wind Power. What Happened?, by Lois Parshley – NY Times

Credits: Mike Haddad

Robert C. Seamans, the man President Gerald Ford had entrusted to deal with the energy crisis of the 1970s, didn’t think wind power had much of a future. In 1975, at the dedication of an experimental turbine in Ohio, Seamans opined that wind would never account for more than 1 percent of the U.S. energy supply.

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