I’m sure the fossil-fuel-industry-funded pressure group the American Wind Energy Association (sorry guys, you set the terms of debate) has some comment about this, possibly consistent with the series of invective they’ve tossed over the past two weeks at anyone who criticizes their rent-seeking or the mythology underpinning it.

Do you recall President Obama saying “take a look at what’s happening in countries like Denmark and Germany” (as an ever-graceful segue from what proved to be an embarrassing call to “look at what’s happening in countries like Spain and Germany”)?

Well, now that the Danes have — some folks there have woken up to what a boondoggle wind energy is, and — amid the sudden realization of the emperor’s nudity — the discussion has begun on how to slow and reverse the madness.

Seems that, after Danish think tank CEPOS heeded Obama’s call just as the King Juan Carlos University team did, a leading Danish politician called to redirect some of the, er, windfall of subsidies toward different renewables, and “the government’s ally, the Danish Peoples Party, welcomed the proposal, pointing out that the subsidies had cost residents and electric companies billions of kroner.” The Danish authors also found that the turbines live remarkably shorter lives than previously thought, so in the absence of the massive subsidy required to keep the bubble full, Danish land-based wind should shortly be headed for phase-out. Good news for the birds, bats — and neighbors, incidentally (scroll down).

I have to say that the Spanish and Danish people, not to mention my fellow Americans, owe a debt of gratitude to our president for his call to educate ourselves on what’s going on in those countries. I wonder what’s going on in solar-leading Germany . . .