> > Then the whacko environmentalists got involved, and sued the h*ll out 
of
> > anybody that had built a wind generator there, not to mention the usual
> > rioting at the company's headquarters and executive's homes.  So most 
if
> > not all of those windmills are gone, now, and California suffers from a
> > significant power shortage (DUH!).
> 
> So those enviro-whackos did not like wind power?

Nope.  They claim the wind generators kill birds - although I've not seen 
piles of dead birds around the one's around here.  The generators here sit 
on top of a 150 foot tower, and the (3) blades are each 125 feet long, they 
rotate at less than 10 rpm.
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