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June 16th, 2009

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As Wind Power Grows, a Push to Tear Down Dams

Hay I have a better idea WHY NOT JUST SHUT OFF THE POWER GRID, if they don’t want electricity, then we will not have to worry about any of it, OK,HAY OK, then will that make vevery one happy.

Well then that will make this the lazyest people on the earth, how about that, no power on work, if you think that there will all ways be a wind blowing you are nuts and need to be put in a loony bin.

Do you have any idea how much land that will take up, and how much land, and that includes trees witch we need to take out CO2 to produce oxigen, or don’t you care about cleaning up the air.

Can this country afford any more stupid people, we have enough in DC, we do not need ant more.

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By KATE GALBRAITH

WASCO, Ore. — For decades, most of the nation’s renewable power has come from dams, which supplied cheap electricity without requiring fossil fuels. But the federal agencies running the dams often compiled woeful track records on other environmental issues.

Turbines on John Hildebrand’s farm supply electricity to the Bonneville Power Administration. Bonneville also gets power from dams on the lower Snake River.

Now, with the focus in Washington on clean power, some dam agencies are starting to go green, embracing wind power and energy conservation. The most aggressive is the Bonneville Power Administration, whose power lines carry much of the electricity in the Pacific Northwest. The agency also provides a third of the region’s power supply, drawn mostly from generators inside big dams.