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Oil Billionaire Building World's Largest Wind Farm

Posted by kdawson on from the at-the-round-earth's-imagin'd-corners-blow dept.

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."

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  1. In other news by BigJClark · · Score: 5, Funny


    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.

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    1. Re:In other news by polar+red · · Score: 5, Funny

      we have removed enough trees to counter that effect

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  2. Doc Brown ain't all that impressed by KlomDark · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's only 3.3 time machines worth of power.

  3. Re:'Bout time... by xpuppykickerx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sim City taught me that cold fusion is the way to go.

  4. Re:Pickens is not a good guy by Scaba · · Score: 4, Funny

    He also drank my milkshake!

  5. Re:Who is responsible for maintenance? by hansamurai · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  6. Re:Who is responsible for maintenance? by Chris+Burke · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  7. Re:They are industrially designed by qualidafial · · Score: 4, Funny

    we were told that *theoretically* the twin towers could withstand airplanes crashing into them. They didn't. *Theoretically* my spaghetti is defective, because I cannot use it to build a ladder.