Richard Casady wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 09:10:12 -0400, Keith Nuttle
wrote:

Windmills have been tried and were rejected several hundreds of years
ago, because they are dependent on the weather

What utter bull****. Windmills have been in constant use ever since
they were invented. The state of Iowa gets 5% of its juice from wind,
BTW.
Now tell us farming was rejected because it is dependent on the
weather.

Casady
It use to be that you would drive through the midwest and every farm had
a windmill in operation. How many have you seen today.

We have recently driven across North Carolina, both Virginias, Kentucky,
and Indiana and not seen one windmill.

"Keith Nuttle" wrote in message
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Richard Casady wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 09:10:12 -0400, Keith Nuttle
wrote:

Windmills have been tried and were rejected several hundreds of years
ago, because they are dependent on the weather

What utter bull****. Windmills have been in constant use ever since
they were invented. The state of Iowa gets 5% of its juice from wind,
BTW.
Now tell us farming was rejected because it is dependent on the
weather.

Casady
It use to be that you would drive through the midwest and every farm had a
windmill in operation. How many have you seen today.

We have recently driven across North Carolina, both Virginias, Kentucky,
and Indiana and not seen one windmill.

Just on tonights local news... a supermarket just spent $400k to install a
wind turbine cabable of providing 25% of it's electricity needs (equal to
about 25 homes)
The things seem to be catching on here.