ecogeek.org — Texas likes to do everything big, including wind farms and investing in clean energy. The states has been given the thumbs up for a $4.9 billion plan to set up transmission lines to carry the wind power generated in West Texas to surrounding urban areas.
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Closed AccountJul 29, 2008
if there was only a way to temporarily store energy in some sort of battery like device.../sarcasm
macenvyJul 29, 2008
My "welfare state" of NY gets less back for its tax dollars than your "free state" of Texas, douchebag.<a class="user" href="http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/266.html">http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/266.htm ...</a>I like Texas (the land anyway), but to say that you don't benefit from federal tax dollars is a goddam lie. You should see how much money gets funneled in via corporate welfare before acting all high and mighty. And as far as Bush goes, his money may be from Connecticut, but his attitude is all Texas.f**k, Texans are arrogant.
macenvyJul 29, 2008
When our county put in windmills, our electric bills went down. Turbines are at a pretty decent cost competitiveness now, especially since production has ramped up so much in the last 5 years.
geauxlsuJul 29, 2008
Most of America's wind power is being collected in Texas (which provides more than 25 percent of the country's wind-generated electricity), the Midwest, and West Coastand how did that happen??The Power of GreenThe politician who actually proved just how effective this can be was a guy named George W. Bush, when he was governor of Texas. He pushed for and signed a renewable energy portfolio mandate in 1999. The mandate stipulated that Texas power companies had to produce 2,000 new megawatts of electricity from renewables, mostly wind, by 2009.<a class="user" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/magazine/15green.t.html?pagewanted=10">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/magazine/15green ...</a>
pathouston22Jul 29, 2008
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas operates the electric grid and manages the deregulated market for 75 percent of the state.<a class="user" href="http://www.ercot.com/">http://www.ercot.com/</a>Has all the numbers of available and used power on the Texas grid.
wright3279Jul 29, 2008
How did this story make it to digg? Waste of space! It could have been filled by some more Huffington Post's stories bashing McCain and lauding Obama.Somebody at the digg controls slipped up!
blatantninjaJul 29, 2008
God Bless Texas!
gettaratNov 25, 2008
This would make sense if west Texas had urban areas...<a class="user" href="http://texashighschool.org/">http://texashighschool.org/</a>
ninjatech123Nov 26, 2008
The Doc would be proud.
kvieprJul 1, 2009
I heard these wind mills are an eye sore and local texans complain that it's noisy as hell. Check out this video of some farmers showing their windfarms and how noisy they really are. I heard some texans are taking some of these companies to court:<a class="user" href="http://www.americasheartland.org/episodes/episode_404/harvesting_the_wind.htm">http://www.americasheartland.org/episodes/episode_ ...</a>