[tt] Pickens $10B Wind Farm to Get Underway

[Brian Atkins]

http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2008/04/pickens-wind-fa.html

Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens is commencing action, with plans for his company, 
Mesa Power, to build, over the next four years, the previously announced $10 
billion wind farm, the world's largest, that will eventually generate 4,000 
megawatts of electricity - the equivalent of building two commercial scale 
nuclear power plants - enough power for about 1 million homes.

Next month Mesa Power, will begin buying land and ordering the first 500 wind 
turbines of the 2,700 turbines required for the project, at about $2 million 
each, to be located across 200,000 acres of the Texan panhandle.

     "Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, 
and I think this is going to make a lot of money."

     -- Pickens in the Guardian

Pickens grand plan, not to be built by him, for resolving the energy needs of 
the US. is to build wind farms on a corridor of land running north to south 
through the middle of the US - along the great plains and to harvest solar 
energy from a corridor running east to west from Texas to southern California.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/14/windpower.energy

-- 
Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/