Reuters: Lost financing, low prices for natural gas and political uncertainty have stymied a potential boom in the U.S. wind power industry this year. Investment in new wind power capacity that exploded from $3 billion in 2005 to $17 billion in 2008 was projected to fall to $13 billion this year. The fallout for the U.S. industry, the world’s largest producer of wind power at 28,000 Megawatts, could usher in a period of consolidation, analysts said. Financial institutions no longer …