Short and on this exact topic. http://marshallbrain.com/manna...

There's no rule that I'm aware of that says it can't be a 99.3% deterministic universe. Why this need for all or nothing?

The part I've never understood is that God is supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent and does things than humanity is incapable of understanding, and yet this all powerful God is only able to create a static system, and not a dynamic one? The two are only arbitrarily incompatible.

Austin, TX gets plenty of wind from north & west TX, up to hundreds of miles away. Line losses are negligible (5%, I believe). That is, load and generation source do not need to be contiguous.