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Blown away: wind power is floating high on the political winds as the country's answer to its power needs, but, in reality, it's an idea whose time has come ... and gone.(ENERGY)
Hardly a stump speech goes by without a political candidate calling for "more renewable sources of energy such as wind or solar" to either stop our dependence on foreign oil or to slow the C[O.sub.2] emissions that mean certain doom for our planet. The politicians are doing what most politicians do: spewing rhetoric that they know voters want to hear; proposing programs they know little or nothing about.
But as of August 3, the rhetoric was backed by action and the stakes became serious--as they say, "The price of poker just went up." On that day the U.S. House of Representatives voted to require electrical utilities to obtain 15 percent of their power from ...
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