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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (41635)	11/17/2003 9:25:30 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (2) of 74559

Ray, With wind energy now coming in at about 5 cents/kWh in the most favorable wind locations, wind has become economically viable. Wind is a real winner. But it's actually more intrusive than solar seems to me unless you want a wind farm and dare I say it ... grid to apply to (IMHO). We have one (turbine, I know I've mentioned this before) in sight of where I walk the dog along the lake or driving to the mall. Funny on a windy day it shuts down... ;o) BTW it is HUGE and it's just one. Solar is still a quixotic hope. Sort of like Columbus voyage I guess but ya gotta start somewhere... I don't see any as a panacea and I agree that Clint affair was simplistic... but I wonder how much cost could he have recouped had he been compensated ? Anyway they will all have their niches I think. No one will be a panacea and they needn't be in a distributed system. EDIT wouldn't some citizens be civic minded enough to do it regardsless, (well Clint was) and add a bit of cost subsidy to boot... more impetus to improve the power yield and so it does... or we can just buy more GE turbines and import LNG :o) EDIT #2... BTW a lot of hub hub re: all the job creation for pipline building .... a little pork barreling maybe...

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