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The Sun Journal editorial about T. Boone Pickens' wind power development (July 13) was right about the potential of wind power in the Great Plains states, but wrong about the feasibility of transmitting that power across the country to New England. ...While there is some wind potential in Aroostook and Washington Counties, there is less than most people seem to think. Many of the blueberry barren and potato farm field sites that were originally planned for development have proved to lack sufficiently strong winds to make turbines a good investment.
July 20, 2008
by Robert Gardiner, Independence Wind LLC
in Sun Journal
The Sun Journal editorial about T. Boone Pickens' wind power development (July 13) was right about the potential of wind power in the Great Plains states, but wrong about the feasibility of transmitting that power across the country to New England. The losses involved in transmitting power more than a thousand miles are too high to justify shipping that power to the East. Wind is an important clean energy source, and we need to make use of it, right here in Maine.
While there is some wind potential in Aroostook and Washington Counties, there is less than most people... [continue via Web link]
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