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To: Joe NYC who wrote (372714)	3/3/2008 8:39:48 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575980

Joe, I don't want to keep beating a dead horse but things are not working in this country; they have not worked for several years now. And the sense is they are getting worse. The article mentions nothing about taking power infrastructure off line because of new wind farms......nor does it take a genius to figure out how much power you need as back up should the winds fail. It's a new math that utilities did not have to do in the past. In the past, there was a danger of disruptions, which are more or less random and independent. But if a big percentage is coming from solar or wind, the disruption of supply are not random or independent. It's kind of like risk management through diversification (to reduce it) or concentration (to increase it). If a utility is counting on not building traditional power plants, and instead rely on wind and solar to cover growing demand, it is putting at risk something that we have always taken from granted - reliability of electric power.