Another reason to end this friggin' war....


	Another reason to end this friggin' war....

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3759af4a-3018-45d5-ac15-429c17c0de3f/84C9FF51-D267-4F41-B3B7-1B26319615FB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://solveclimate.com/blog/20080513/wind-would-power-20-america-cost-four-months-iraq" href="http://solveclimate.com/blog/20080513/wind-would-power-20-america-cost-four-months-iraq" style="font-size: 11px;">solveclimate.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://solveclimate.com/blog/20080513/wind-would-power-20-america-cost-four-months-iraq"><H1 class="title">Wind Would Power 20% of America for Cost of Four Months in Iraq</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://solveclimate.com/blog/20080513/wind-would-power-20-america-cost-four-months-iraq"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/solveclimate.com/img/669DE55D-A714-4449-B136-4850C13F526A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://solveclimate.com/blog/20080513/wind-would-power-20-america-cost-four-months-iraq"><P>
Right now, wind supplies about one percent of US electricity.
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The most welcome news all week? America could ramp that up to 20% by 2030 for an investment of just $43 billion, the DOE has found in a new eye-popping report.
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What a bargain when you consider that the US will spend around $12 billion each month in Iraq in 2008.
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For less than four months at that price, the nation could secure the future of its booming wind energy industry, help end its dependence on foreign oil and support a half a million jobs.
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Spread that investment over several years, and it looks like a no-brainer for America.
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The best part? The DOE claims that the four major obstacles to the 20% wind scenario -- transmission, siting, manufacturing and technology -- can all be overcome.
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The <A target="_blank" href="http://www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/pdfs/41869.pdf">248-page DOE analysis</A> is grabbing headlines. No wonder, it’s a technical feat.
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