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08-04-2008, 04:02 PM
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CD News Reporter
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News, In the Hills of Nebraska, Change Is on the Horizon.
AINSWORTH, Neb.
Driving south out of the agricultural town of Ainsworth, you can’t miss its newest crop: wind turbines, three dozen of them, with steel stalks 230 feet high and petal-like blades 131 feet long, sprouting improbably from the sand hills of north-central Nebraska, beside ruminating cattle.
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08-04-2008, 04:25 PM
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D'OH!!!
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Central Nebraska
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If T. Boone Pickens gets his way, you'll see a lot more of them.
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08-04-2008, 04:53 PM
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Glade fjerde av Juli
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"Black squirrels? Where did they come from?"
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Omaha
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Well, this is a good thing for the Sandhills, it could help spur a little economic development.
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08-04-2008, 05:31 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: South Dakota
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I am solidly for Pickens' plan. Good for economic plan in the plains, including South Dakota, along with cleaner energy and developing more domestic energy sources.
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08-04-2008, 11:36 PM
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Enjoying "The Good Life"
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Sandhills
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I kinda like looking at those big flowers to the south. The wind blows here for sure, we just as well take advantage of it. They pulled the two wind generators down up by Springview. Guess they were getting a bit old.
You look at them from a distance and they really don't seem that big, but you get up close, the blades are huge.
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