Abstract
As the fledging wind turbine sector shows, even the world’s best engineers were unable to build modern units from scratch. Government officials threw money at researchers—along with unrealistic expectations. What’s worse, corporate management at the big firms mainly wanted the R&D funding so they could prove that wind power didn’t work. Innovation did not come from early R&D.
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Morris, C., Jungjohann, A. (2016). Fledgling Wind Power: The Folly of Innovation Without Deployment. In: Energy Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31891-2_3
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