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The entire lower 48 is connected to the electrical grid.  All of these alternative power generation methods just feed power into the grid. No town I'm aware of depends solely of alternative power to the exclusion of the grid. Therefore no blackouts just because it's raining or the wind isn't blowing.


I saw on the news that T. Boone Pickens is touting wind power to save us from the arabs in the middle east.  Mr. Pickens ususally makes a lot of sense. I just have a hard time believing that wind power can be economically scaled to deliver power in the gigawatt range.


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