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Every timee I travel along the edge of the Plains in Colorado and New Mexico I am struck by three things.

First, the amount of wide open nothing.  For a far as a person can see there is nothing.  Just mile upon mile of open land. 

Second, the wind.  I have yet to make the trip between Denver, Colorado and Albuquerque, New Mexico and NOT experience the wind.  Sometimes wind so strong you think it is going to pull your arms out the sockets just trying to stay on the road.  Sometimes just a breeze, but always wind.

Third, the sun.  I’ve traveled in the dead of winter and you know it’s only about 20 degrees outside, but the sun is shinning away brightly.  Even mild temps of  60 or outside and the sun is baking the inside of the car.

So put the three together, open land, wind and sun, and what do you have?  Well Lucy, you have one of the best places in world for wind and solar power. 

And apparently I’m not the only one that thinks so.  Vestas a Danish wind company is building a new plant in Brighton Colorado to manufacture wind turbine blades. 

Thank God somebody finally put the three together.  And the Danish do have a long history of using wind power.  But come on people, while we Americans are trying to figure out how to get more oil out of the Middle East here comes somebody else to our own backyard to tap into what has been here are along.