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Old 07-14-2008, 04:57 AM   #30 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by mike734 View Post
Golly, wind power, how revolutionary! A whole bunch of farmers in Tx and our country's bread basket already know all about wind farms and how they saved their family farm.

Tidal electricity generation could be a local answer too. Puget sound is one area where that could work.

I've got 3 acres zoned agricultural. I'd love to put a wind turbine on my property, as long as it was hooked up directly to my house

I think that tidal electricity is awesome - what an easy, continuous source of energy! There's one off of the coast of Newport, Oregon. They're saying that "hydrokinetics" could power 10% of the nation. It's available 80-90% of the time, where wind generation is half-that.

If that will keep the farmers from selling their corn to make ethanol and instead, go back to feeding people and animals with it, maybe milk won't be $6/gal anymore...
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