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This [Cape Wind project] is precisely the kind of renewable energy that pretty much every Earth Day speech since 1970 has demanded that we develop. Now that it's finally here, though--now that we're talking about particular windmills in particular places, not abstract and squeaky clean 'wind power'--people aren't so sure...But I've given my share of Earth Day speeches, and seen the effect they had. Sooner or later you've got to do something.

-- Bill McKibben, Author of The End of Nature

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Storm Drives Spanish Windmills, Cuts Power Rate to 15-Month Low
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Spanish weekly electricity prices fell to a 15-month low after a storm powered wind turbines. That allowed utilities to reduce production from more expensive generators that burn coal or natural gas.

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