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Aug 25 08 8:52 AM
...on the scale that Pickens envisions, this is a pipe dream..
The Department of Energy says wind could be providing up to 20 percent of our electricity needs by 2030. Is that a realistic prediction? No.
The resistance to wind farms in Kansas' Flint Hills tallgrass prairie region a few years ago was only a foretaste.
When the power is most needed - in the afternoon - the wind often doesn't blow steadily enough for turbines to reach their peak output.
"The Denmark story is basically a fable. They can do that because the whole Danish system is part of the northern European grid."
On a recent trip to Colorado, we drove through one of Kansas' newest wind farms, and I found the appearance of the windmills jarring. Both times we drove through, by the way - coming and going - the turbines were becalmed.
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