adjunct to traditional power sources. I have a wind generator and 350 watts of solar power on my boat that I lived on for 24 years. I also worked for one of the largest power companies on the west coast and retired as the supervisor in charge of the substation division of a Nuclear Power plant. When I retired one million six hundred thousand dollars worth of electricity went through my equipment a day. I'm totally in touch with electricity and it's production. I was involved in a small way back in 1974 with the first, the very first, experimental wind generator project in Palms Springs, California. In fact there were three different test models. Two were the propeller type and one looked like an egg beater. I also did some work on the Dagget experimental solar farm in the desert outside of, you guessed it, Dagget, Calif. also back in the 70's. So now that we know something about my history and that I'm pro alternative energy we can get past the "Steve's an anti green guy" and talk about the facts as I see them. Others on this board might disagree and that's fine. I'm just pointing out some male fact based logic. In order to produce enough energy to replace even one Nuclear Power plant you would have to paste the coast of Main with wind turbines. Along with the wind turbines you need substations. Substations that have to be built in someone's back yard. Maybe not yours but they have to go somewhere. You need transmission lines which have to run over someone's property or next to it. Now in come the "intervener's". Interveners are the folks that don't want the substations and transmission lines in their backyards. The folks that want to protect the birds. (The thousands of birds that will die over the years.) and the folks that fear the electrical field around power lines and substation. You would have to fight your way through all of them in order to get the permits to install them. On top of all this, they wouldn't be out on the horizon. They would be in your face because you can't pass that kind of current through underwater cables for that distance. I hate to be a wet blanket here but it is what it is. Solar and wind placed around the country as an additive measure is fine but I don't think that it will ever generate enough power to make any kind of a real difference. Our power companies are having a hard time keeping up with growth because they can't get the "right of ways" and easements in order to build infrastructure. This is just going to be the same fight. I'm just trying to make a point.