by Christopher Mims. The radical environmentalists at Bloomberg have declared that the world's best new wind projects now produce electricity that costs about the same as electricity produced from new coal-fired power plants. A lot goes into these calculations, but here's the bottom line: wind costs $65 a megawatt-hour, while power from new coal-fired power plants costs about $68 an hour. Coal would be much cheaper if there were no environmental controls on it. So if you like asthma, poor air quality, and premature death, be sure to vote for whichever politicians are all about rolling back environmental controls.

Go here to see the original:
New wind now costs the same as new coal—the tiebreaker is one of them kills you

More on SKCEA.org:

• Wall Street and ethanol cause starvation, say scientists
  by Christopher Mims. Today's supervillains are soooo boring. If only they'd wear tights and touch entrapped damsels’ hair in a way that made us uncomfortable, we'd be up for patriotically pistol-whipping them, Captain America style. Instead we find out that Wal...
• Study: Cell Phone Towers Don’t Raise Cancer Risk
  A recent study by British researchers at Imperial College London's School of Public Health has found that, despite widespread concern over the safety of cell phones, children born to mothers who lived near cell phone towers while pregnant do not have an elevated risk of cancer. ...
• Can sprawling Los Angeles learn to let a river run through it?
  This is the second in a four-part series about the L.A. River. Read part 1 here . The L.A. River descends from the mountains into a sea of sprawl. (Photo by La Citta Vita.) The Los Angeles River begins in the mountains that hem in the sprawl of the San Fernando Valley. Even up i...
• Boehner supports cutting oil subsidies for five whole minutes
  by Jess Zimmerman. Apparently the whole "we support handing out bags full of money to the rich because we care about the little guy" act is harder to keep up than we'd realized. Put John Boehner under a little pressure about oil company subsidies and he buckles like a belt. ...
• BP workers could have prevented rig accident
  BP had workers on the doomed Deepwater Horizon rig who could have prevented the missteps that led to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but they were not consulted, the White House oil spill commission said on Thursday. In an expanded report on the causes of the BP drilling di...