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  I've recently visited two windmills in Massachusetts, both at schools and at the edge of ball fields. The whistle of wind through the backstop was louder than the blades. Yes the blade noise is intermittent, but not unlike a car going by at a distance. And speaking of that, I live off a secondary road with 50 mph traffic. That noise is intermittent and unpredictable, and even has a strong low-frequency component (especially when the milk tanker goes by, 3 or 4 times a day). How's that significantly different than a wind turbine? Besides louder and affecting WAY more people . . . Oh, and some yahoo just started a two-cycle leaf blower, argh. I wish the doctor luck in finding the cause of these people's ills, but the wind machines seem a very unlikely suspect. She'd better be looking for other causes. A note to Eric R, do you really expect to pin the varying coal ton per kWh ratio on the relatively tiny wind component to the US grid? It's absurd. Don't forget about the variable Btu per ton energy value of coal and the changing share of natural gas generation, two much stronger factors.On One doctor’s quest to sound the alarm on ‘wind turbine syndrome’ posted 2 days, 23 hours ago 57 Responses

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  You can get line-dried towels soft . . . by using them once!On A surprising sneak peek at the clothesline revolution posted 1 week, 1 day ago 31 Responses

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  I think you're selectively revealing facts to be deliberately misleading. The top 3 trade-ins were Ford Explorer, Jeep Cherokee/Grand Cherokee, and Ford Windstar. Oink. The top 3 new cars were Toyota Corolla, Ford Focus, and Honda Civic. Tada! The edumunds.com story tries to say the "real" cost was $24,000 per car because many of those purchases would have happened anyway. But it does not account for the stimulus effect that cash then had elsewhere, so it's a shoddy analysis. The program was not perfect, but it worked. I'd rather my tax dollars do this than pay bonuses in the bloat-and-gloat financial sector.On Cash for Clunkers brought us ... more clunkers! posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago 29 Responses

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  His hair is in a league w/ Lou Dobbs, Bill Frist, and Tom DeLay (but without the dye). There's a litmus test for you.On Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) [UPDATED] posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago 2 Responses

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  Dear Rep. Hutchinson, how much has our inaction on climate change & energy security cost us already? That inaction has not only adversely affected the economy, it helped tank it. Don't feed us the party line about farmers, ranchers, workers and small businesses . . . we've already been squeezed and it's time for you to act. Sorry I don't have the Texas numbers but you can find them. Between 2000 and 2008, the average Massachusetts family paid $4000 a year more for energy. Electricity went from 10.5¢ to 16.1¢ per kWh, $600 a year more. Heating oil went from $1.31 to $3.21 a gallon, $1520 a year more. Gasoline went from $1.22 to $2.89 a gallon, $1850 a year more. That's about $4000 a year, THE COST OF DOING NOTHING. We need a framework that puts a price on the environmental, political, and national security penalties inherent in fossil fuels like oil and coal. Cap & trade may not be perfect but it's way better than business as usual. Enough of using us farmers and workers as pawns, the only ones with something to lose are the big energy companies, please stop listening to them and listen to us.On Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) posted 1 month, 1 week ago 5 Responses