GUEST 8:47 a.m. said:

But I do favor the electricity being generated by wind farms being used locally, and not shipped via high voltage power lines to the cities, suburbs, and industrial parks.

GUEST clearly doesn't understand the nature of the electric power industry. Other than little gasoline or diesel generators dedicated to individual users, all electric power producers feed into networks, for supply-smoothing purposes, and it is meaningless to talk about the power being "used locally". Trying to use small scale electric sources on a limited local basis is just ASKING for inefficiency and either waste capacity or unreliability, or both.

Dave Oesterreich