Steve,

You will be fighting the enviromentalists every step of the way. They talk out of both sides of their collective mouth on this.

They want alternative energy but when a plan is developed for solar or wind, they immediately bring up reasons why we can't use them.

In WI, we have out-of-state enviro-warriors coming here to fight windmills. We have what is termed the Niagra Escarpment. It is a high ridge created from glaciation and is a perfect place for windmills. The companies that want to put them up are being stopped in their tracks. The reasons given as to why windmills are bad:

1. They kill birds.

2. They generate a low frequency hum that humans can't hear but affects bats.

3. Power lines have to be run from the windmills andyou can't string power lines.

Regardless of the alternative energy, power lines have to be built to carry the electricity.

Legendary oil man T. Boone Pickens has a campaign going on right now about how the US needs to begin developing alternate power sources. I agree with much of what he says but the eco-warriors don't want trees cut, don't want any creature killed, and don't want anything done to alter an ecosystem in any way. Putting up windmills and solar arrays definitely alters ecosystems.

Good luck in trying to be "green" but like kermit says, "It ain't easy being green."