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Oil Billionaire Building World's Largest Wind Farm
gadzook33 writes "CNN is reporting that oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens is planning to invest billions of dollars in what will probably be the world's largest wind farm. It will eventually generate 4 gigawatts, enough to power 1.3 million homes. The first 600 GE wind turbines are scheduled for delivery in 2010. Pickens says that each turbine will generate about $20,000 in income annually for the landowner who hosts it."
In other news... Oil companies erect large billboards to block naturally generated windpower in an effort to negate the power generated.
In all seriousness, I really hope this works out, as any effort to lessen our carbon footprint is a good move in the right direction.
Hi, I Boris. Hear fix bear, yes?
Hell, sign me up for 5! I'll give up work, and just tend to these all day. Sure, it'll be cramped on my .20 acre plot, but hey!
Well, an apartment actually.. And I can also provide wind!
That's only 3.3 time machines worth of power.
Sim City taught me that cold fusion is the way to go.
He also drank my milkshake!
Oklahoma? Only two things come from Oklahoma, and I don't see any horns in that picture...
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
There was actually a car on fire in the parking lot this morning. Just sitting there, parked.
Those things can literally crash and burn too.
Totally off topic but it was the most exciting thing to happen at work in forever.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
Well with a little initiative on your part, exciting things like that could happen in your parking lot every day.
I'm just sayin'.
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This could definitely have an adverse impact on the environment by changing wind patterns thus inducing climate change causing the melting of glacial ice, flooding and making Florida disappear. I recommend we resume the consumption of hydro carbons until more research has been done.
Apparently a lot more birds fly into mirrored glass skyscrapers than fly into windmills. Of course, if everybody starts using windmills that will mean less coal particulates in the air, which means cleaner skyscrapers, which means even more confused birds.
Windmills kill birds!
Ahhhhh, Bush fire. That would be pretty funny, seeing him running around, flapping his arms, screa... oh, wrong bush...
Really? After taking into account the cooling systems and safety shut offs and the mechanisms and processes for installing and removing fuel rods?
Forgive me, but I think you're just making shit up.
While giraffe farming has obvious problems there are other grazing animals that should be OK.