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A new generation of windmills, Don Quixote than ever, is ready to switch its economic and place as an important source of the nation in the energy sector.

Due to significant improvements in the areas of technology, the commercial use of these windmills, or wind turbines as owners call, showed that apart from the fact that pollution free, they can now compete with fossil fuels on the cost of producing electricity.

Accordingly, officials of the utility companies worldwide have come at the hands of cash, California, for bits of ridges here on Mount Alta passport, for example, if the new machines, which resemble later Married with helicopters use computers are the wind.

During recent months, the service supply Upstate New York, Illinois, Iowa, California and the Netherlands have decided to try once wind energy to generate electricity commercially. In competition with fossil fuels

Kingsley E. Chatton, president of USA Wind Power, 22, the new generation of windmills here, said the profitability of wind energy was the point where it competes with fossil fuels. “Other vote.

Edgar A. DeMeo, responsible for research on renewable energy at the Electric Power Research Institute, a national research consortium based in Palo Alto, California, said the work in California, was an important step forward. Mr. DeMeo’s Organization, which is taken care fee by distribution companies, extensive surveys on new technologies and opportunities for improvement of existing technologies, all types of food sources.

“We are beyond Kitty Hawk and the Jet Age,” he said.

The turbines are a successor to thousands of crude oil, packed in poor windmills optimism of the pioneers of the early 1980’s, machinery, producing more tax credits in the form of electricity and now largely disappeared. Capturing more energy

The new windmills to capture more wind energy - a delicate feat surprise. Wind very different, but electricity should be as homogeneous as the user can, for example, a watch from him. Uniformity has been largely achieved, with a permanent, high-tech fiberglass blade propeller adjustable scene computers.

The turbines can not be the place of burning fuel installations complete, because the wind can not be in the air to hunt. But he can count on more than enough time for significant quantities of energy and reduction of conventional generation with their emissions of sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain and carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas .

The wind can also be used to store water behind hydroelectric plants, dams for the last year by dry periods. In some places, the wind is sufficiently reliable to be counted, at certain times of day or seasons.

The latest generation of windmills for the excess of an economic threshold, allowing their use in many parts of the country, although it will last several more years before taking a large portion of the nation electricity. Mr. DeMeo said he would not be surprised to see windmills produce 10 per cent in 30 years - for example keeping the level of the share produced by hydropower.

He said that successive generations of windmills, based on a combination of blades and sophisticated computers, it would be more costly and should not as objects of transmission, reducing costs. A cold wind Noisy

One morning the last summit of the pass Altamont, about 30 miles east of San Francisco, the wind at 30 mph, was hard enough, Heister doors open for a car as soon as the passenger began to l open. Lament of turbines at different heights, while the cold winds by the sides, whistling, 80 laps barefoot on the hills. None of this seemed to disturb the cows or soil squirrel, but also for visitors, it was quite frightening.