Global warming cuts US wind potential?

Yoiks, if true; a study, with preliminary numbers, says average wind speeds in the Midwest and East have fallen 10 percent since 1973, and, worse, says speeds could decline another 10 percent in the next four decades.

So, the wind power industry’s claims that the U.S. is “the Saudi Arabia of wind energy” may be truer than they recognize, assuming Peak Oil pretty much guts the Saudi oil fields in those same four decades.