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Phooey on Heat Pumps RE: Letter from John D. Bennett in the July 2008 issue. There is no heat from heat pumps. I built a house three years ago and did everything possible to make it energy efficient. The only mistake was installing a heat pump. In the winter all it does is blow cool…

More Stories Needed Two pieces [on wind power] in your June issue and not a single mention of the possible effect of bird strikes on migratory bird populations? I believe you owe your readers a look at all sides to this story. You also did not mention the increased number of homeowners erecting micro-turbines in…

Willie Story Leaves Him Cold You let Joe Nick Patoski write a boring, one-sided piece on Willie Nelson’s visit to his hometown and the Abbott Methodist Church (“The Gospel According to Willie,” May 2008), but it doesn’t tell about Willie, the man, or his feelings about life or anything else for that matter. And the…

Mesquite Worse Than Bamboo Author Clay Coppedge incorrectly states (March 2008) that bamboo once served as a windbreak along the River Styx—a claim that those of us intimately knowledgeable about the River Styx know is incorrect. The windbreaks along the River Styx are composed of South Texas’ own mesquite trees, which are surely much more…

Country Doctors the ‘Best’ I look forward to receiving Texas Co-op Power because I have come to expect at least one article in each issue to inform and delight me. The February issue is no exception. In fact, for me, the article by Sandy Sheehy, “Country Doctors,” is the best of the best. It makes…