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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (4299)	1/19/2009 7:01:23 AM
From: Road Walker	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

He stated there is also the problem of inadequate "interfacing" between the windmills and the grid so power is being wasted and not able to get to a market. The first nuke plants were not perfect... see Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, etc. You want to repeat the mistake of giving up on nuke power?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (4299)	1/19/2009 10:24:52 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 86356

Happened to have traveled through the WA-OR area w/i the past year and I saw a number of windmills - didn't see one turning. I can easily believe: " some 30% of the windmills in Washington are either offline, or operating at reduced capacity, because they were installed incorrectly and put in the "wake" of another turbine. Apparently this limits the amount of wind force they receive and some are only turning at 30% capacity." Hey, things like that happen when things are driven by government incentives.