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To: willcousa who wrote (62635)	4/3/2002 4:22:58 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

OT wind power: re: no one wants the props anywhere near them: No problem. Put them all in North Dakota, and build high-voltage (superconductor?) lines to the rest of the continent. The buffalo won't mind, and the Natives can supplement their gambling industry with royalties from wind farms. Nobody else lives there. I can think of a few thousand square miles in Alaska and Nevada and Baja California and Alberta, where there are very, very few people to complain about prop noise. Especially if they are paid well not to complain. re: it is a very high maintenance proposition to keep the props in service: 5 years ago, that was true. The technology has been refined rapidly, and that is no longer true. For instance: There have been wind turbines operating (and cost-effective), in Kotzebue, Alaska (a place I used to live), for several years. This is a place with a chronic shortage of skilled personell for maintenance of just about everything. It's also a place where winter storms mean 60+ mph winds, and 30 or 40 below temps. If you can maintain it economically there, you can maintain it anywhere. The problems you see, will suddenly not be an obstacle, the day after Saudi Arabia has an Iranian-style revolution.