It took all the region's wind turbines offline for about five hours and it expects to continue to pull the plug on them for a few hours almost every night until well into July, when enough snow in the Cascades and northern Rockies will have melted for the excess run-off (and therefore the excess power) to subside.

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After subtracting the draw of running lights, headlight, cooling fan, among other components, the excess power is available to run add-ons including lights.

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It is a farce of astounding excess and it ought to fail, to simply run out of jokes.

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In the run-up to the 1937 dip, many people thought inflation was imminent due to the jump in excess bank reserves.

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"They never addressed the issue of reverse logistics, of what happens to obsolete or excess products, " said Stambouli, who spent his youth watching his father run an importing business in Bulgaria before heading to the London School of Economics for his undergraduate degree.

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