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Jon T. Haugen for Senate, 18th District (D)
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Family Wage Jobs.  Every politician seems to say these words but most only say
them.  Jon Haugen, in November 2007, visited Pipestone, Minnesota where the
words were put into action.  Jon met with Jeff Jones the city official who brought
Suzlon Corporation, a company headquarter in Bombay India, to the United
States in 2003.  Jon met with the director of Suzlon Rotor Corporation, Bhupen
Barbaria.
This is the type of company that as a Senator, Jon Haugen would bring to the
18th Legislative District.
Deeds not just words.                                     
 (Photo Credit:  Jon Haugen)
Countries where Suzlon sells
wind turbines:  United States,
India, Australia, China and Korea
Blades manufactured are 43 meters, (about 43 yards) long.
The entire unit weighs 7 1/2 tons.
With wind blowing 6 m/s (or about 12 miles per hour) the unit will
produce 2.1 Mega Watts of electricity to power 1,200 homes.
Solar Panel Plant for Southwestern Washington

    It is #14 on the periodic chart.  Si, not Spanish for "yes" but chemistry nomenclature for Silicon.  
Silicon may be our future because black gold, Texas tea, oil is running out.  
    As a Super Power we have a choice:  We can make Kuwait our 51st State through a bloodless coup
as we made Hawaii our 50th.  We can then use our 'long straws' (oil drilling) to 'drink the milkshakes'
(suck out the oil) of Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia or we can become energy self sufficient.
    For the latter choice Silicon may provide part of the answer.  
REC Silicon, a Norwegian company,
is completing an $600 million expansion of their Moses Lake Washington plant.  Once that is complete
a company here in Washington will produce one-third of the world's silicon.  
    Silicon from Moses Lake is then trucked to Vancouver, B.C., shipped by train to Montreal to be
loaded on a ship for its final journey to Norway where Solar Panels are produced.
    Jon Haugen traveled to REC Silicon, Moses Lake Washington in October 2006.  Jon was given a
private tour was hosted by the CEO Goran Bye President and CEO of REC Silicon.  
    Working with REC Silicon, as your State Senator, Jon Haugen would bring a Solar Plant facility and
hundreds of jobs to Southwestern Washington.  

    Current technology converts only 14% of the sun's energy to electricity.  Contributing money
toward research in the Washington State public college system could double the amount of energy
produced from the sun.  After all one of the three inventors of the solar panel was born just down the
road in Salem and attended Willamette University before moving on to Bell Labs: Gerald Pearson.