Do you remember during the summer of 2008, and last year’s presidential campaign, when Texas businessman, T. Boone Pickens, was promoting his plan of energy independence by utilizing wind energy and natural gas as a way to wean America off of expensive foreign oil? Well, according to a recent report by Dallas Morning News reporter, Elizabeth Souder, the plan has changed because of both financing and electric transmission difficulties. It now appears that instead of building one large wind farm in a remote Texas panhandle area, that Mr. Pickens will attempt to help build several smaller wind farms that are more closely situated to population centers, and where electric transmission lines are already in place. To read the full article, click here.
Is Mr. Pickens wasting his time and money, or are wind farms the way of the future? Let me know what you think by e-mailing me at doug@loranda.com.
Source: Dallas Morning News
