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Old 08-19-2016, 07:05 PM   #47 (permalink)
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Looking for a place to drop this link, this seems as good a thread as any:

Oregon Finds Switching From Coal to Renewable Energy Is a Bargain
Replacing coal-fired electricity with ever-cheaper wind and solar power will raise utility rates just 0.1 percent by 2030.

That's not 0.1% a year, but over the 14 years. When I saw the landscape under these panels it was like going home:



Yup, McMinnville. That's what the hills look like in August.
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