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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (2714)	9/26/2011 11:35:24 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

"you do understand that there is loss when you transmit over long distances, right?" Yup, and I know that is mostly what we do now. "And have you put any thought into how much land would be needed to power a city like Chicago?" No, I let other people do that for me. There is a study that sez 10K square miles needed for solar. Another with the same figure for wind. In the case of solar, that means covering 1/4 of the roofs and parking lots in the country. That leaves all the rest, plus the coastlines, for wind. 20K square miles is only 4X the size of my county. "BTW: did you hear about the power outage in southern california a couple of weeks ago? seems that taking the coal plants offline has made the grid in SoCal a little bit fragile. " Not really....it was winger error. Power company employee caused massive blackout, utility says "The outage appears to be related to a procedure an APS employee was carrying out in the North Gila substation, which is located northeast of Yuma," an APS press release said. "Operating and protection protocols typically would have isolated the resulting outage to the Yuma area. The reason that did not occur in this case will be the focal point of the investigation into the event, which already is underway." latimesblogs.latimes.com