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For All You Windpower Folks Out There...

04/29/2013 4:11 PM

Ten interesting and verifiable facts about windpower:

http://www.greatenergychallengeblog.com/2013/04/16/inside-the-wind-power-industrys-report-10-geeky-facts/

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Re: For all you windpower folks out there...

04/29/2013 5:46 PM

Interesting. Our electricity in southern Minnesota is generated by a wind power.
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04/29/2013 11:41 PM

From the figures supplied. Wind turbines generate about 27% of the time.

Sounds about right.

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04/30/2013 3:44 AM

So if we put up more wind turbines we will have more time?
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