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Pickens Calls Off Massive Wind Farm In Texas
schwit1 writes with this excerpt from an AP report:
"Plans for the world's largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle have been scrapped, energy baron T. Boone Pickens said Tuesday, and he's looking for a home for 687 giant wind turbines. Pickens has already ordered the turbines, which can stand 400 feet tall — taller than most 30-story buildings. 'When I start receiving those turbines, I've got to ... like I said, my garage won't hold them,' the legendary Texas oilman said. 'They've got to go someplace.' Pickens' company Mesa Power ordered the turbines from General Electric Co. — a $2 billion investment — a little more than a year ago. Pickens said he has leases on about 200,000 acres in Texas that were planned for the project, and he might place some of the turbines there, but he's also looking for smaller wind projects to participate in."
Yaaaahhoooooooooooooooo!!!
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Makes me think of the "Wind farm" scene in "Blazing Saddles", when Slim Pickens says "Boys, I think you'd had enough".
You missed a key point. They were going to be installed in Texas, improving the landscape.
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
Dr. Strange Glove....
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I have this mental image of T.Boone Pickens straddling one of the blades of a giant turbine as it goes round and round. He is strapped to it and screaming "Yee Haw" while waving around his Cowboy hat with one arm.
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Then the Turbine blows up real good!
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Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
So roughly $2.9M per turbine. Does that include shipping? Probably not. How long until I get a positive return on my investment? 10 years, 20? Come on man, I've got my bank on the other line.
'They've got to go someplace.' Pickens' company Mesa Power ordered the turbines from General Electric Co.
1. Form new Mesa Power subsidiary called Black Mesa 2. Use extra wind generated power to open interdimensional gate 3. ??? 4. Half-Life!!!
Dude, I was driving an interstate through West Virginia a few days ago and saw a billboard that said, "Clean, carbon-neutral coal." So it must be true!
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
I suspect he approached the eminent utilities on this when the windmills were ordered, and got a soft "sure, if there's a windmill in Texas we will buy energy from it" sort of commitment that turned into a "You want us to spend how much capital? Just for the right to buy your energy?"
No it was more like: Whut? Windmills ya want us to buy electricity from windmills ya tree-huggin pot-smoking hippie? Are you a few plums short of a barrel? This is bedrock fossil-fuel country... Yeeeeehaaaaaa.... eat buck shot! Git'im boys lets tar'n feather this varmint!
Agreed, I think they look futuristic. Also the pile of dead birds around them make me smile.
You thought you could break the laws of physics without paying the PRICE?
What the hell is wrong with you?
Bending down to pick up the soap in prison probably is a mistake, too. What's your point?
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Corporations would turn your grandma into Soylent Green...wouldn't even wait for her to
become a corpse before doing it.
Wait, what? What are you saying? Soylent Green is Grandma? Oh, my God. Soylent Green is Grandma. Soylent Green is Grandma.
SOYLENT GREEN IS GRANDMA! SOYLENT GREEN IS GRANDMA!
Post aborted: Reason, don't use so many Grandmas when yelling about Soylent Green.
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