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Billionaire Oilman Building World's Largest Wind Farm in Texas
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by Rob Walker | May 20, 2008 at 12:19 pm
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After a Department of Energy study in 2007 that stated the US could generate 20 per cent of their necessary electricity from wind, Billionaire T. Boone Pickens decided to buy the turbines from General Electric.
Ali Velshi: Tell me about the wind. Now, you are buying, for a start, more than 600 wind turbines from General Electric. You're going to put them on this big tract of land in Texas, and you're going to generate a lot of electricity.What happens to that electricity? Tell me where you think you're going to make your money and how this is going to help the situation in America.
T. Boone Pickens: Well, that's the first step to a 4,000-megawatt wind farm. This is 1,000 megawatts.
We start receiving those turbines in mid 2010. We will have the total 4,000 megawatts finished by the end of 2015. That power will go into a transmission line that will tie into the Electric Reliability Council of Texas system in the state of Texas, and it will be transmitted downstate.
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at 18:34 on May 20th, 2008
photo taken at Horse Hollow Wind Farm- Currently the worlds largest wind farm developed by Florida Power and Light Energy. - Photo taken Nov. 17, 2007
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at 19:02 on May 20th, 2008
Photo Taken at Wind Farm near Wingate, TX on 12/24/2006
McMike has contributed a photo to this story.
at 16:38 on May 22nd, 2008
photo taken by rose tina jarrell at wind farm in synder, texas. (nolan county)
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at 21:31 on May 22nd, 2008
Photo taken by Shae Rinehart - Snyder, TX area.
at 11:01 on June 5th, 2008
photo taken near Snyder Texas
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at 02:21 on July 12th, 2008
Rob Walker, I like this story. It's good stuff.
There's news from T. Boone Pickens; he has a plan, yes Pickens Plan.
See: http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/t-boone-pickens-has-plan-pickens-plan
at 09:17 on July 12th, 2008
We need to massively increase nuclear simultaneously. Wind is only a partial solution. It won't save the planet from the greenhouse gas nightmare. Nuclear can.