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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (415928)	6/17/2003 4:36:30 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Of course you are right again, Thomas, and the wind engineers are wrong. How sad that GE doesn't have you for a consultant. gepower.com Del

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (415928)	6/17/2003 4:43:09 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

What idiots, eh Thomas? This is just one of many announcements from around the world, all happening while this administration is pushing for coal plants. Terrible, isn't it? Why doesn't an expert like you warn them? "Iowa Utility Announces World's Largest Wind Farm 25 March, 2003 - AWEA today praised MidAmerican Energy, Iowa's largest utility, for its announcement to build a 310-megawatt (MW) wind facility in the state. The project would become the world's largest land-based wind plant, if completed before a proposed expansion of the 300-MW Stateline facility currently in operation in the Pacific Northwest." awea.org

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (415928)	6/17/2003 4:46:34 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

What is the 'guaranteed' input cost for oil? What is the actual per kilowatt cost of nuclear generation (if waste disposal costs are factored in, and the never-before-been-done disposal of an end-of-life power reactor and associated structures, and disaster insurance costs and fuel production subsidies are also counted)? Even WITH 50 years of massive government subsidies, nuclear generated electricity is currently not cost-competitive with alternatives... whereas - properly situated - wind power generally is. So, what is your point? Obviously, wind power will never produce meet all of our electric needs, but neither will any other technology (absent the arrival of fusion-generated power). Still, targets of 5% or so of the current US load are considered quite doable for wind.