>>Terry,
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>>>I thought obvious with the mention of Kirk's ancestor).
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>>Sorry, that one flew right over my head. *g*
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>>>However, I'd rather be named for an aerospace company than a burger manufacturer (even though both - alledgedly - harm the global environment)
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>>Heck the whole universe harms the global environment (solar radiation, asteroids, comets... ) so what's the harm in a little jet fuel based ozone depletion or excess fat intake in the grand scheme of things? *L*
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>Dave
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>No, I wasn't referring to the fat intake - rather the destruction of the rainforest to create cattle pasture to grow hamburgers on (let alone the fact that these cattle then produde methane). As for aviation polution (I wasn't even thinking about O3 depletion), there's a move afoot in UK to greatly increase the number of wind farms, to attempt to comply with Kyoto (you guys wouldn't know anything about that, of course, thanks to "W" :-) but I read recently that even with them it would only save less CO2 emmissions than 1 Jumbo Jet produces in less than 6 months.
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>We're all doomed, man - we're doomed!
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>Terry

Terry;

We have had wind farms for at least 25 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have seen them in north central Oregon also.

A problem we are having with wind farms comes from lawsuits filed on behalf of birds that have been killed flying into the blades of the wind generators. There is no way to win! :)

Tom