Wind farms power oil-rich Texas

[nikos833]

Grande

[TonySopr2]

Painting your house pink with purple polkadots?

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[prentis45]

Ha Ha Ha ...Congress and world banksters you can't hang your meter on this one. Here we have real people doing something about one of our biggest world problems and if they make a dollar from there efforts then so be it. We are the care takers of this land for those to come I say lets take care of things.

[prentis45]

Ha Ha Ha ...Congress and world banksters you can't hang your meter on this one. Here we have real people doing something about one of our biggest world problems and if they make a dollar from there efforts then so be it. We are the care takers of this land for those to come I say lets take care of things.

[DominickBlack]

Yep.

[pacificcresttrans]

Texas leads the United States in terms of wind power production. It is projected that wind power in the United States has the potential to power the whole of the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, almost 29,000 MW of wind power was generated in the United States as of April 2009. Transformer company, Pacific Crest Transformers has more on this.

[snappy2111]

everybody know the government is building these to slow the earth from rotating so fast so they can make more money in a day, when you're not watching they turn these fans on that blow about 120 mph wind

[ringman001]

blow wind blow

[Featur4]

Go wind power!

[Jerkerface]

Go wind power! Wind turbines never voted for a shady democratic black president.

[bellaggio1770]

Yeah but a black president voted for wind turbines, while a Republican piece of human waste has done all he could to prevent their success. It's time for Republican scum to get the message about renewable energy: It's not a partisan issue.

Go wind power!

[acidtrashy]

Wind power is an economic failure.

[bellaggio1770]

Based on what? It's a very promising, fast growing and profitable sector, $120bn was invested privately in Texas alone. Wake up and stop spilling garbage on here

[acidtrashy]

Would wind be an attractive investment without the changes to REC subsidy in the US? Will the wind industry survive without it? No. Dr Golby, CEO of E.ON doesn't think so. This is a regulatory compiance market which would not exist but for intervention by government because the yeilds are low, it's unreliable and the grid infrastucture is prohibitively expensive, not least because of distance and remoteness. Were it not for the Obama stimulus, the wind industry would be caving right about now.

[webbj123]

Agreed, when wind is averaged over an entire year it costs between 14 and 20 cents/kWhr as opposed to the coal value of 4 cents/kWhr and the nuclear 4.6 cents/kWhr. Plus a wind farm costs $6,300/kW to build compared to the nuclear $4,200 and coal is even lower. I would like to get of coal to, but wind only gives energy when mother nature tells you that you can have it, nuclear is all the time.

[WarOnWind]

No it is not. Guess what? Wind power fluctuates and doesn't even generate power at times. It needs backup encase it doesn't generate power. So wind will just put power plants on standby and when it stops generating power, it will not cause a blackout. When a power plant is on standby, it does not generate power but still burns its fuel.

[tom13erry]

Nuclear plants on standby would conserve their fuel and there would not need to be very many of them to work as backups if the windpower was increased. Where do you work? Powerplant? Coal mine? The anti wind people are so transparent. That guy on there in a Real American. Pro-Freedom, Pro-Common Sense. He even agrees with a dem. president bc he knows its a good idea, not bc hes blinded by liberalism. How often does All the wind across the entire US stop? Never. Please. Read A Book.

[BILLYTALENTRULES123]

wooow im naked right now! S