metaefficient.com — Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens has placed an the largest ever order for wind turbines: he ordered 667 wind turbines from GE, each costing $3 million dollars, making the total order $2 billion. Pickens plans to develop the world?s largest wind farm in the panhandle of Texas.
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ryanhuttoMay 19, 2008
this comment wins
mejogidMay 19, 2008
@Troy64I'm all for nuclear, wind and solar - but mass hydroelectric power means drowning huge swathes of land, damaging ecosystems (the Three Gorges Dam in China likely resulted in the extinction of a species of river dolphin, for example), losing huge amounts of water to evaporation in hotter areas, trapping sediment (bad for farming, likely to cause erosion near the river mouth etc), can cause meandering and changes in river course downstream (not insignificant for the people who actually own that land and may well have to fight the river advancement) and is generally only cost effective when the dam serves another purpose such as flood protection. And if the dam bursts.... (rare, but were talking thousands of fatalities here).On the other hand, on huge rivers the available energy can be worth it, but then again the risk is that much greater
machocheese34May 20, 2008
Daniel Plainview would have been better
soulkitchenMay 20, 2008
Fair enough
stevanoskiMay 23, 2008
"and coke and hookers." HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA, what are you in Jr. High?
mrzeeroJun 23, 2008
I think I read that they can avoid these because they are fixed and not moving at hundreds of miles an hour.
steffenfromeuAug 23, 2008
Thanks for green information! It's more than about green!"Let's fight for new, green energies and not for oil!" <a class="user" href="http://changeforbetterworld.blogspot.com/2008/08/lets-fight-for-new-green-energies-and.html">http://changeforbetterworld.blogspot.com/2008/08/l ...</a><a class="user" href="http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Change_for_better_world_Wandel_fuer_bessere_Welt">http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Change_for_bette ...</a>