Wind power

[Les Paul]

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/2008-05-15-pickens-wind-turbines_N.htm

My hometown. Finally the guy is doing something good.

[The Gaijin]

LP:

I hate to be negative or a crank - but it does not work.

A green scam from beginning to end.

"But the industry has relied on federal tax credits to survive, a point Pickens underscored Thursday..."

GE, Wall Street and ol' T-Boone propped up by taxpayers and ratepayers.

[Les Paul]

Actually the new turbines are 2 megawatts. 1 megawatt is generally considered to supply enough juice for 1 thousand people. There are already quite a few around here and with his 660+ and another 5-600 in the pipeline from 4 or 5 other players the once good for nothing panhandle of Texas with the omnipresent winds is good for something.

The downside is you have to have a backup if and when the wind isn't blowing. That is about 1 day a week 2 tops. The backups are either coal fired boilers or gas fired.