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To: biblewonk
With all due respect, yours is the classic argument presented by the Wind industry in its effort to discount those they call the "anti's". NIMBY, NIMBY is their other rant.

This is likely the wrong medium for what I see as a complicated debate. I do believe that the "anti's" have the better argument.
74 posted on 11/08/2004 10:01:28 AM PST by LisaS
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To: LisaS; newgeezer

Well I believe that windmills are beautiful works of engineering. It is so great that they produce power for less than the cost of natural gas and competitive with most other forms of power and that the source of their power is not being used up. I think it is just excellent that each GW of wind power installed, about 7 weeks worth, brings more knowledge to the industry allowing more reduction in the cost of the power. I think it is excellent that Denmark produces 20 percent of their power with wind and Germany and Spain are both at 5 percent. I think 1.8 penny's per kwhr is a very small price to pay to help develop this excellent idea. I suspect that there are people that could have argued against sailboats littering up the seas hundreds of years ago. I think that there are just some people that you can't reach.


78 posted on 11/08/2004 10:22:18 AM PST by biblewonk (Neither was the man created for woman but the woman for the man.)
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