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Old 06-30-2009, 09:45 PM   #14 (permalink)
Big Dave
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I'm all for wind power, but you gotta realize it is not a free lunch. Wind turbines will kill birds and for some reason birds are ubiquitous in prime wind resource areas. Also somebody has to come up with a storage technology to allow intermittent wind power to be dispatchable on demand.

Until somebody comes up with a good portable energy storage wind generated electricity won't displace oil for transportation fuel.
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