Whining? Whining would be please, please, please reinstate comments for this. I can't live without it. Bah, humbug.
More to the point. While selling power to the grid profitably is iffy, the times 'they are a changing'. So, the answer is, "It depends where you live." Michigan, for example has a net metering law, which means you can get credit at retail price for power you sell back to the company. The caveat (there always is one) is that after a year the power company gets to keep at no cost to them any excess power you generate over that year. As such, this isn't much different than generating your own power off grid, except you never run out of power, you probably need no batteries, and you need to buy an approved inverter (ka-ching). My own take is that over time various factors will come together to make the prospect of selling home brew power to "the man" more realistic. I don't believe this wind power thing is static, but will evolve over time.
