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- nebbo, on 07/27/2008, -0/+54Why is it ironic? Texas is one of the energy capitals of the world.
- ecoaussie, on 07/26/2008, -18/+68Kind of ironic that this is happening in Texas, but cool nonetheless!
- inactive, on 07/26/2008, -3/+45I will give texas credit, they always go BIG. "Everything's bigger in Texas" not always the best policy, but great when you're talking renewable energy.
- xrisnothing, on 07/27/2008, -6/+31Yes, it's so "ironic" that in flat windy west Texas they have wind power.
Prejudiced moron. - scamper22, on 07/27/2008, -1/+24contrary to your ignorance.... Texas is one of most technologically advanced and places.
High Tech? Austin, Dallas, Houston... That's where a lot of real work gets done (dell, ti...)
Energy? Well that's all in Texas.
Money? They got that too since they don't go spending crazy and keep taxes low.
Corporations? Yeah as the guy above said... most fortune 500 companies. So they got the know how.
So when it comes time to invest, they actually have the money to fund this kind of project and all the skills needed to bring it to market.
And they just get things done. They don't have a bloody celebration for putting up 1 wind turbine and think they're suddenly 'green'
I say all this as a Canadian, who frequently does business in the states. All I can say is anyone who thinks of Texans as some backwards rednecks needs their head checked. - nebbo, on 07/27/2008, -0/+23We also have our own power grid.
- Clugenheim, on 07/27/2008, -2/+23Texas, hell yeah!
- TheMachine1, on 07/27/2008, -8/+25We are lynching people on those wind towers though.
- santaliqueur, on 07/27/2008, -4/+20Narrow minded Diggers believe every citizen of Texas is a gun totin' bible thumpin pickup drivin right winger.
- BrokenLegend, on 07/27/2008, -0/+15I'm sure that there's a Pecos Bill story that will come out of this.
"Well Pecos Bill roped one hundred tornadoes and put them to work spinning those windmills so fast that they had to hook up machines that made lightning just to waste the extra electricity they made. And that's why when it's extra windy you see lightning on the horizon." - w116tjb, on 07/27/2008, -0/+13Well that was constructive...
- inactive, on 07/26/2008, -3/+16"Preliminary approval" I'll believe it when it's actually there
- inactive, on 07/27/2008, -0/+11Texas has the 2nd most fortune 500 companies.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/ ... - soljerchim, on 07/27/2008, -0/+11Driving through west Texas i think many of you people would be surprised at how many turbines are already there. It seems as though many people are selling bits of their cotton fields for wind turbines, and some miles straight up littered with them as close as possible. You can see more than a hundred between I20 and Lubbock just from the road (who knows how many there actually are). I'm just glad their finally putting those dust storms to use.
- motivatedmama, on 07/27/2008, -1/+12It's stories like these, of true possibility, that will really bring the price of oil down. Not the false implication of our puny untapped domestic oil supply. The problem is, when the bubble bursts will Americans go back to being oil guzzling fiends and tilt the emphasis away from alternatives again? Crazy to say, but it would be better for us and future generations if the price remains fairly high.
- badassninja, on 07/27/2008, -1/+10Looking at the head line I thought they were going line the side of high ways with tiny wind mills to pick up on the wind from passing cars.
- muckemuck, on 07/27/2008, -1/+10Will individual investors be able to buy turbines and put them on the grid to make their own power and sell any extra power generated? I've seen communities in Europe who did this and it worked out really well for them.... Or... is this just for the big corporations to make more profits using infrastructure paid for by the taxpayer? ..
- zirkle2007, on 07/27/2008, -1/+9eh, not your best work so far
- quandrum, on 07/27/2008, -1/+8@Bkaufman
Conservatives don't, but Republicans do.
If you aren't in Big Oils pockets, then the GOP mainstay think you're a piece of sh*t and don't care about your conservative values.
Real conservatives need to learn this so they don't vote in more "raise the national debt more than every one of my predecessors combined"-style conservatives. - zmigliozzi, on 07/27/2008, -2/+9I blame bush for sure, damn him and his home state getting that there renewable wind energy.
- katalysis, on 07/27/2008, -0/+7Since moving to Texas from San Francisco, I've see huge wind turbine blades carried on flatbed 18 wheelers on the highway with police escorts at least ten times now.
- sockpuppets, on 07/27/2008, -1/+7Why's everything gotta be 9/11 to you?
- inactive, on 07/27/2008, -0/+6They just put in over a hundred near the border of OK, and they're huge. There was problems with a local town not allowing them due to ruining their landscape. Im pretty sure building a coal plant would be a much better alternative for them, I personally think that windmills make the land more interesting.
- motivatedmama, on 07/27/2008, -0/+6Point 1. See Point 3?
Facts and numbers disagree with point 2. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story ...
Point 3? We will not maintain the motivation to continue with well funded research without high prices. Research into alternatives must become a priority in order to save our children from the pain we've felt lately. I'm willing to pay that price for my children. - MrEtan, on 07/27/2008, -1/+7There are quite a few wind turbines in Texas already. I see trucks carrying the blades all the time when I'm driving.
- inactive, on 07/27/2008, -0/+5I must've submitted this one a week ago. This is old news and a duplicate. Buried.
- casey148, on 07/27/2008, -0/+5Screw those hippies. They'd have us living in caves if they had their way.
- bincoder, on 07/27/2008, -0/+5Texas has been given preliminary approval.
I was not aware that the great independant republic of Texas needed 'approval'.
This is one state that can legally and economically afford to succeed from the union.
Approval my freshly branded ass. :P
Yaaay! Texas! - Justice101, on 07/27/2008, -3/+8Seems like their trying to relive their glory days as a booming energy metropolis, which is alright by me and the environment.
- mBrutis, on 07/27/2008, -0/+4Bird and Bat mortalities have been greatly exaggerated, at least in the northeast.
- inactive, on 07/27/2008, -3/+7It's also home to most oil companies of the US. I guess that's what ecoaussie was pointing at.
- Kingmishima, on 07/27/2008, -0/+4Woke up this morning and found a piece of news (about my home state) that didn't make me feel the world was being consumed in evil. Thanks for a change of pace digg.
- tjrecord, on 07/27/2008, -0/+4We have about 10 cent cheaper gas than the rest of the country, but we're not the cheapest. I believe south carolina is.
- zephyr42, on 07/27/2008, -0/+4dude... texas oil fields are not dry, there's still a ton of oil and natural gas down here but it's cheaper to buy that stuff elsewhere rather than use our own *****.
- cliodnafreya, on 07/27/2008, -0/+4This is actually a positive sign. Government has finally realized that we need to think beyond petroleum. We will need to look at all possible energy resources air, water, sunlight, nuclear and much more. I don't think a single item from the list can replace petroleum.
Its good we get started now. - poopdigger, on 07/27/2008, -0/+4Texas already generates more wind power than any other state in the country
- Bkaufman, on 07/27/2008, -3/+7Conservatives do not oppose alternative energy, or getting our country off of foreign oil. We just aren't unrealistic about the time frame that it is going to take to accomplish this.
- lisaawesome, on 07/27/2008, -0/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Boone_Pickens
- jamesmudgett, on 07/27/2008, -3/+6i was just in texas last week and witnessed some of the props for these things being transported on 18 wheelers seriously 1 prop was at least the length of maybe 1 1/2 trailers... everything is bigger in texas i guess.
- Spyke72, on 07/27/2008, -1/+4No, he's just saying it's ironic that the home of Texaco is taking environmental measures.
- coolian12, on 07/27/2008, -0/+3I've seen them spinning at about one revolution per second. Makes you realize how powerful wind is.
- inactive, on 07/27/2008, -0/+3Starting to see a lot of this attitude lately.
- DuffyDirect, on 07/27/2008, -1/+4Offshore + Anwar + shale oil combined are not puny.
- Sooozie, on 07/27/2008, -1/+4I heard that birds flying into the windmills (and the birds dying as a result) has environmentalists concerned and they're trying to put a stop to this. Damned if you do, damned if you don't!
- montiff, on 07/27/2008, -1/+3ATX FTW
- 120decibel, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2Well its the most efficient way to harvest renewable energy... a modern wind power plant amortizes its "to build" energy cost within 5 months in good exposure...
Solar cells need about 5 years....
And if you think they are ugly.. well put them where no one sees them... - inactive, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2Texas has the best wind channels, I already own Nacel Energy Corp (NCENE) stocks. Get it and you will thank me for that. Do your own research to see what the company is all about.
- mattyG, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2haha what? we're in the middle of a boom right now! They aren't dry at all.
- Ramble, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2Enjoy your propaganda.
- vtbutterworth, on 07/26/2008, -4/+6This isn't saying "Oh we'll build so and so number of wind turbines". It's merely saying, "If you build those turbines, you'll have the infrastructure to actually sell it to people".
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