Of course, leaving a smartphone's display on for multiple hours as you traverse Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon and California isn't wise without a power source to sustain that type of abuse, so it's worth mentioning that I traveled with an AC inverter in order to keep a constant power connection to the Lumia 900.

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This is why no serious study of cancer rates in relation to proximity to power plants has ever shown any correlation ( Jason Harris, Idaho State University), as hard as many anti-nuclear activists have tried.

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Power from the wind farm will go to Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho, Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Montana.

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States with the strongest projection for water-cooled concentrated solar power plants and capacity (more than 15 sites each) are California, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.

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