[Parmy]

We, here in WA state, also have lots of windmills. It is creating a problem in the grid. One, when the wind is too high, too much power is created and the BPA, which regulates the power, has to spill water over the dams. That endangers the fish as well as causes a problem downstream with an over abundance of water.

Secondly, when the wind dies down, there is a great power reduction. Then the dams have to generate more power.

It requires a lot of monitoring and a very expensive and powerful computer complex to regulate it.

[larry hagedon]

And we have massive swings in demand from early morning to late evening and that has to be handled by turning windmills on and off and by ramping power plants up and down. That is a never ending chore, no matter what the power supply.

You want to talk about power interuption, let a large power plant shut down in an emergency. Now that is real excitement.

wind currents are quite predictable and are all planned for.

better to have excess energy than power blackouts, but the bottom line is that wind power has proven by experience to be a very good power to have in the generating mix.