The price of 1,000 watts (enough to light up 25 light bulbs of 40 watts), for an hour, went from 29 Cents (pennies) per kw-hr when an oil barrel sold for about $10 Dlls, DOWN to 3 Cents per kw-hr when an oil barrel first sold for over $50 Dlls, PG&E is busily hooking up Farms of windmills; their profits are up. Bird strikes are minimized by keeping out the rodents they come to eat.

By the way, all Nuclear power plants received big federal subsidies, which will not be available, now that oil is forty times more expensive than oil sold when bill was approved. Wanna bet? How do you spell Nuclear Lobby?

You know how some people do not want to give up after they have, by all indications, LOST? Now, Nuclear power plants AND Solar cells have lost but refuse to give up. In the case of solar cells, this is good because new inventions might make them truly competitive -in a purely hypothetical future, irrelevant for elections. A new invention is to use a computer printer design to print a dot, to put a liquid chemical and build a solar cell like a computer chip is build - under development.

The main article in January's Scientific American included a plan using $420 Billion from the U.S. Government and in 20 years, Solar cell electricity could be made for 6 cents a Kilowatt-hour -maybe. Why would anyone want, but may not be able, to do for 6 cents, 20 years from now, what windmills do for 3 cents, now?

Presently, in some homes and city buildings, this can make sense, while most electricity is made from oil (and coal) but, in about 25 years, when windmills produce most of the electricity in the U.S., only in most special applications will solar cells be used, such as in most remote, temporary or isolated places -wherever electric lines are too costly.

Where will they find the space for windmills with wind patterns to power the whole nation? EPA published results of a 1991 study that showed that North Dakota, Kansas and Texas, alone, have enough wind power potential to provide power for the nation. The energy conversion efficiency continues to grow more than the size of their huge blades that turn at a slower rate and produce as much as 5 Million watts (MW) per windmill. Denmark puts windmills in the ocean and MIT designed one for barges, offshore and out of range of eyes and ears. These could be moved to avoid migration bird paths that fly at low altitudes, normally, they never migrate like that.