Coal is paid $.44 per mwh Nat. Gas: $.25 per mwh Biomass: $.89 per mwh Nuclear: $1.59 per mwh Hydro: $.67 per mwh Solar: $24.34 per mwh Landfill gas: $1.37 per mwh Wind: $23.37 per mwh

Your tax dollars getting transferred to Gamesa

You repeatedly refer to Blair County residents as "hillbillies" and you refer to Altoona/Blair County as "The West Virginia of PA."

Blair Countians value their natural heritage. That's why the Blair County Commissioners voted to have the Blair County Natural Heritage Inventory done. The Blair County Natural Heritage Inventory gave Ice Mountain the highest possible rating of ecological value: Ice Mountain is designated as a Blair County Natural Heritage Area. It is further described in the Blair County Natural Heritage Inventory as being UNIQUE and OF EXCEPTIONAL CONSERVATION VALUE. Please read Mr. Wentz's letter. Then explain why you believe it is necessary to convert Ice Mountain into an industrial windplant. 25 industrial-scale turbines are proposed for Ice Mountain. They will provide less than 1% of the amount of electricity produced by the Bruce Mansfield coal plant or the Limerick nuclear plant.

In PA, the nuclear plant at Berwick is adding a reactor. The new reactor will provide as much electricity as 2,000 industrial-scale wind turbines.

PA needs to expand its nuclear capacity. There's no way that we could build enough industrial-scale turbines to have the same amount of electricity that nuclear plants offer.

Did your elementary school cancel classes today because of the weather?

You are avoiding the issue, as usual.

The question is: do you want a coal fired plant in your backyard?

The demand for electricity continues to grow. That demand will have to be met by new generation plants. Coal, nuke, GTG, or alternative energy plants will have to be built. Right now, wind is the best option, but NIMBYs like you want to stop progress.

You hillbillies need to understand: you can't watch Jerry Springer on a kerosene powerd TV.

If you don't want wind power then you have to live with the consequences of your choice. Those consequenses include mercury pollution from coal palnts and 10,000 years of poison from nukes.

So, if you don't want wind power then butch up and have a coal plant in your backyard.

Or, are you an environmental racist that only wants those types of stations built in "poorer" areas. (Although it would be hard to find a poorer area than Altoona, The West Virginia of Pennsylvania.)

So far, nothing you say has corresponded with anything Mr. Wentz or I have said. Mr. Wentz is talking about why a specific locale is unsuitable for development. He makes no judgement regarding windplants.

You didn't answer my questions regarding the numbers of turbines needed to produce a given amount of electricity, so you may not know the answer.

PA gets 50% of its electricity from coal plants. You would need 20,000 industrial-scale wind turbines to provide that much electricity.

PA gets 35% of its electicity from just 5 nuclear plants. To produce as much electricity as just ONE nuclear plant, you'd need 6,000 industrial-scale wind turbines.

I'll have our developer contact you through the Mirror.

You are doing a great thing for the economic future of "The West Virginia of Pennsylvania", Altoona.

Pennsylvania has 30+ coal-fired plants. Please tell me how many industrial wind turbines will be needed to produce as much electricity as half of those plants.

Please tell me how many inustrial-scale turbines would be needed to produce as much electricity as one of PA's 5 nuclear plants.

We aren't talking about Prince Gallitzin State Park.

Try to keep up.

So, if someone's opposed to covering Prince Gallitzin State Park with solar panels, then that means that he is opposed to alternative energy?