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A little bit about the country from Wikiand from the State Department. In Thursday's piece I laid out my prognostications for the coming little bit of time I'll be away.

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engineer
June 15, 2007, 12:57 p.m.
At least we'll be a little less dependent on oil. Amen!!
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universal12
June 15, 2007, 1:37 p.m.
Indeed your right!! But, then we will be more dependent on something else haha. Better than oil though.
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elel
June 15, 2007, 11:53 p.m.
Well, I didn't follow the links, and I'm not really sure what this site is about, other than financial things out of my realm. If they do make that wind farm? Woohoo!! What an awesome offset to the coal factories :)
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ETproductions
June 16, 2007, 12:43 a.m.
Leave it to Texas to build the world's biggest of whatever it is. I applaud their effort.
I'm also glad to see that Cape Wind here in Massachusetts is finally going ahead. They call Chicago the Windy City but the truth is Boston and the Cape hold that record -- windiest metropolitan area in America. Might as well put all that energy to some use other than blowing dust in our eyes.
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nostalgia
June 16, 2007, 6:59 a.m.
This site lists the other wind power projects in Texas
http://www.infinitepower.org/projects.htm
The state invested in the Texas Wind Power Project and they collect some of the profits. The money goes into the
Texas' Permanent School Fund - they have earned more than $750.000 from it since 1995
Prodded by state laws that require utilities to purchase green credits, tax breaks and easy access to vast open plains with steady, strong winds, Texas has passed California in generation of electricity from wind
California started with a huge lead in wind. At one point in the early 1980s, it had more than 80% of the world's installed wind generating capacity. Now its share is below 4% and continuing to decline.
I wonder why California stopped??
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GODIMMAD
June 16, 2007, 9:35 a.m.
Its strange the more liberal the state the less wind power they have if you take out Cali and New York. Many Liberal states dont have any. Mo is the only con state that doesnt have any from what I seen. And we have to in construction. Strange how that works. Rich dont let them because they are rich on liberal concepts. Kinda like most cons are against legal amesty. The libs love it bc it gives cheap labor. Oh how times have changed!
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slate
June 16, 2007, 10:04 a.m.
West Texas is a vast desert with little pockets of population and would be a great place to build vast wind farms. I just came back from that part of Tx this week with work (an 8 hr drive to Houston and I wasn't even close to being out of the state). The 'small' ranches out there run about 90,000 acres. The land is rough, hilly, with little other than mesquite rocks and rattlesnakes. The one thing they have in abundance is under the ground (oil). I was working in the middle of nowhere 9having to use GPS to keep from being lost, when an older man drove up and wanted to 'chat'. After a while, he got to the subject of oil. This man in a truck that looked to be 8-10 years old and dressed in faded jeans and ragged boots told me that they were pumping about one million dollars a day 'profit' from the ground!
Gawd I'd love to have some land out that way, but I'd be living somewhere else and hire someone to 'watch' the miles and miles of nothing for me.
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evelyna
June 16, 2007, 10:26 a.m.
It will be good that they do anything besides sprew coal wastes into the air.
I wonder why corporations and gov. do not issue grants and incentives for alternative energy?
My electric company actually charges more to use alternative. It should be the other way around-I would think.
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slate
June 16, 2007, 10:34 a.m.
I have humor beyond compare but I also know by your past comments that you only choose Tx for the brunt of your lame jokes. I may be a monkey but I'm a smart one, no brag, just fact. Lay off Tx. you are ignorant in your knowledge of this state and can only summon up stereotypical notions which are more bigotry than anything.
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LordyLordy
June 19, 2007, 2:44 p.m.
Windfarm?
Sounds like a group of politicians if I ever heard of one!