"Loogypicker" wrote in message
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On Nov 4, 10:24 pm, BAR wrote:
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On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:16:32 -0800, "Bill McKee"
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"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:11:04 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:58:30 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
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My home (Florida) has been completely ruined by tourism
whereas if our economy had been built on energy we'd still have our
beaches and salt marshes.

Don't be so sure
Have you heard about "Cape Wind"?

Another example of envimoronmentalist hyprocrisy.

http://www.saveoursound.org/site/PageServer

Globe editorials in support.

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/gree...26/2_tribes_ob...

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ed...torials/articl...

Fortunately, it looks like it's going to get done.

http://www.capewind.org/news1018.htm

If Ted Kennedy were alive, it wouldn't be happening. :)

There are proposals to turn old near shore drilling platforms in the
Gulf of
MX in to Wind Turbine supports. The local indians going to object to
that
also?

Dunno...

Neighbor, golf and poker buddy, in the energy business, says that the
wind turbines are better at self destructing than they are at generating
power. The asian and american manufacturers all have the same problems.
The can't stop the blades from spinning out of control and ripping the
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Funny, there's places right here in the U.S. that have thousands upon
thousands of operational wind turbines.

And lots of those turbines are broken. Amazing to see how many are not
turning in a field of hundreds on Altamont pass.