Between having my girls’ father, Stan, in the hospital in Coos Bay and running up to Portland for meetings and some looming patent deadlines I have fallen behind on the blogosphere but hope things may lighten up here soon.

Stan will move from the hospital to an extended care facility for a few days and then to an apartment close enough for the girls to visit him every day. Our job will be to make sure he takes all his medications and eats correctly. He will continue his patent work and as technical adviser to Rogue River Wind.

On the turbine front, most, if not all the parts paid for and fabricated in Coos County have proven to be less than adequate and are being replaced and redesigned, more than doubling the cost of the prototype. At least now, it is finally getting done by real professionals and not people masquerading as such. If I sound angry, I am.

In my opinion, Coos County is clearly not ready for any manufacturing setup and the capital costs make it prohibitive anyway. My company will contract with existing manufacturers elsewhere to meet our sales demands. There will still be job opportunities in Coos County with installation and maintenance but after two disastrous attempts to build something using local talent, RRW will not sink another dime locally.