Wind farms power oil-rich Texas

REPORT: In the space of a few years, gigantic wind towers have spread all over western Texas, making the southern state one of the world's biggest wind power producers.

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[nikos833]

Grande

[TonySopr2]

Painting your house pink with purple polkadots?

wat

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.