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To: bentway who wrote (657217)	5/31/2012 1:49:59 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1572598

And when the wind is blowing hard and generating lots of energy, the Bonneville Power operators send water over the spillway that could generate electricity. ... ... In the space of one hour last month, electricity generated at wind farms in the eastern end of the COLUMBIA River Gorge shot up by 1,000 megawatts – enough to power some 680,000 homes. Less than an hour later, it plummeted almost as much. Sitting in front of 10 computer screens in a fifth-floor room of the federal Bonneville Power Administration headquarters in Portland, Kim Randolph had to react quickly. Working from a keyboard, she diverted millions of gallons of water away from massive turbines spinning in COLUMBIA River dams and sent it around the dams. ..... http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=25826950