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We have pointed out many of the disadvantages of using home-based wind power given the current technology; cost, neighborhood opposition, site problems, length of time to amortize the expense, etc. Still, according to the American Wind Energy Association, there were 1,300 wind generating units installed into the power grid in 2007 - three times the number in 2006. This does not include the many hundreds that were installed as the sole source of power far away from the nearest utility line. Wind power...

Thanks to T. Boone Pickens, wind power is getting a lot of attention. It is hardly a new concept. Farm country is dotted with small windmills that were - maybe still are - used to lift water to the surface for livestock quartered in remote fields. Wind farms have been sprouting up everywhere and many more are planned. One very controversial farm is proposed for the ocean off of the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Critics are calling it a visual blight I drove up out of a dip on Interstate 80 in...