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Old 10-08-2008, 10:23 PM   #32 (permalink)
Duffman
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Neil,
I am not going to rehash all the issues we discussed in the other thread, the main issue being intermittency. You are basically proposing that we power the industrial heartland of the U.S. (NY, OH, PE, MI...) with a multi-thousand mile ambilical cord from the windfields of the midwest and the sunbelt of the south-west. You see no security issues here? Do you think those communities that are at the end of the cord will find it acceptable that they are always the butt of the brownouts when energy shortages occur?
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