>>>Did you grow up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADo_Gallegos,_Santa_Cruz
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>>>Wikipedia claims it's very windy.
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>>Yes, I was re-born there, my parents move from Mar Del Plata when I was 3 months old and the Doctors told them I would die! it is a very long and funny story (well, now it is funny :)
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>>Coastal Patagonia is very very windy and dry, but it is a beautiful place (or an acquired taste!), I lived there, in different cities and provinces, up to 17 years old, when I moved out to go to the University.
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>Hmm, it seems to me Mar Del Plata is a much bigger city with probably better medical facilities, and a better climate! Why would your parents move you away from there?
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>If there is lots of wind in Rio Gallegos it is probably a good candidate for wind power. Wikipedia claims it now has about 100K people, but it's surprising how large some cities can be and still be reliant on relatively expensive diesel generators for electrical power, if they're isolated. Do you remember if Rio Gallegos is on the national electricity grid?

There are wind farms in Patagonia... let me google... yes, the bottom half of the wind farms listed here are in Patagonia (except the last one that I am not sure where it is) also there is good info in that website, there is also a link to a wind map of Argentina that looks interesting, but it does not work :(

I am quite sure that when I grew up Rio Gallegos was not in the national electricity grid, and according to this website they still are not.