HOUSTON – 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. He said he's looking at potential sites in the Midwest and Canada.
In Texas, the problem lies in getting power from the proposed site in the Panhandle to a distribution system, Pickens said in an interview with The Associated Press in New York. He'd hoped to build his owntransmission lines but he said there were technical problems.
Kliphnote: The distribution system was always the problem. Because any place you put a wind farm you have to run your power lines. And the futher you run them the more the voltage drops.(that's why it at 115,000 volts) So, when you put big wind farms in you put them in places where you have the room, far from people and citys and your distribution system. You can't put them by citys, because people don't like wind farms, UGLY ! That's why I think Obama is pulling the wool over the nations eyes when he says he wants to double the wind and solar power. Now it's at 1% he wants it to be 2%. WOW ! BFD ! You can't power your electric cars on that. We get 50% of our electric from coal. The green people and Obama want "clean Coal", he OK's the building of one (1) clean coal plant and brags about it. If you are going to charge your green elect cars you are going to need more than that. You need nuclear power plants. The green people don't like that. But that said, I would like my own wind turbine, in my own back yard. But I am sure the people around me would complane how they are killing birds and make noise and are ugly. I want to be energy independent.
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