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June 22, 2009
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Two Weeks in the West

Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, "... Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them ... for this is a righteous war and the removal of so foul a brood from off the face of the earth is a service God will bless."

Miguel de Cervantes wrote these words in the early 1600s, but change one or two and the passage sounds a bit like the rhetoric echoing through the sagebrush-clad West these days. To reach the ultimate goal of wind producing 20 percent of the energy used in this country by ...

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