[John Lenin]

My mind isn't right ? Who is it that wants to count on a source of power that is not reliable ? Ever been to Palm Springs ? About 1/3 of the windmills are operating on any given day, with or without the wind blowing. And than lets talk about the visual pollution of seeing thousands of 200 foot high windmills trashing up the landscape. What happens at night when the wind stops blowing, do you go back to candles and a fireplace ?

[biblewonk]

My mind isn't right ? Who is it that wants to count on a source of power that is not reliable ? Ever been to Palm Springs ? About 1/3 of the windmills are operating on any given day, with or without the wind blowing. And than lets talk about the visual pollution of seeing thousands of 200 foot high windmills trashing up the landscape. What happens at night when the wind stops blowing, do you go back to candles and a fireplace ?

Yer mind still ain't right. If a single windmill could power the entire country half the time, and predictably due to weather forcasting, you still seem to be willing to write off the source completely. Me, I'd just as soon see that source of clean power used and conserve on the other sources of fuel need for the other plants when the wind is blowing.

Guess what, the wind is always blowing somewhere, therefore 3 such imaginary windmills could power the whole country all of the time. As it turns out, coal isn't really that horrible for the environment and hydro produces 10 percent of our needs pretty handily so we don't have to spend all of our money replacing them right now. But I and about 80 percent of the people anywhere near a windmill are very willing to see wind power start taking up more and more of the load.