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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."
"blows up" oh my, I hope you are a grammar school kid that just hasn't learned much yet
Betting you can fly a jumbo jet without ever having lessons or ridden in a plane IS necessarily a mistake.
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there is nothing particularly difficult about installing/operating an electrical grid
Yeah, I always assume that everything I don't know how to do is easy, too.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess... looks like a beautiful sunset obscured by a bunch of crap to me...
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Gasp. The New York Fucking Yankees (yes, as a Red Sox fan the "Fucking" is required) screwing someone over?
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"massive aluminum plants"
Ohhhh. You mean "plants" as in "factories". Not "plants" as in "vegetation". That one confused me for bit.
it doesn't rely on the whims of mother nature like solar and hydroelectric do.
Uh, yeah, except the times they've had to shut down plants due to:
1. Droughts bringing rivers that are sources of cooling water down to levels too low to service the plant. (as happened a couple of years back in Tennesee)
2. El Nino conditions causing too much seaweed to grow and clog intakes for cooling water (as happened in 2000 in California).
The whims of mother nature are kind of more whimsical than most people think.
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