Ms. Karoustas, now 43, said it had never crossed her mind that she would one day go back to Germany.

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Critics such as Heartland and ALEC are saying that most base-load generators are designed to go all-day, every-day and not to crank up and down so that they can back up wind and solar.

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Now go back to work and try to make up that production before end of day.

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His mind was telling him that the only way to undo the bolting was to go back now, save the day.

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So here's what you have to ask yourselves -- and I do every day: Are we going to turn around and go back to the same policies that got us into this hole in the first place?

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