It just takes time to make wind effective.

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Indeed, various companies, including GE, are investing heavily in ways to come up with cost-effective systems to store the wind and solar energy that their wind turbines and solar technologies capture in combination with other means of generating electricity and power.

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In order to make wind energy cost-effective, one has to keep initial component costs as low as possible.

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With no fuel costs, once built, the longer a wind turbine operates the more cost effective it becomes.

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"I think no matter whose back yard they're in, they just aren't effective, " says Moore, arguing that wind farms are only tax-fueled boondoggles.

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Other forms of alternative energy such as wind and solar, while safe and effective, never have been a realistic option for the developing world.

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"A researcher I was speaking to recently reckons green walls in urban canyon environments (areas where walls are higher than the width of the road separating them) are more effective than trees at collecting particles because the way the wind eddies around and then moves down the wall, " Laurence said.

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Massive and expensive, most wind and sun-powered innovations have not found a cost-effective way to penetrate those markets.

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On the wind side, turbines are getting bigger, more efficient, and more cost-effective.

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Opponents say the project cannot be justified because wind turbines are under-performing, while supporters say the machines are reliable and effective.

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