Anybody need a wind-power turbine?
| July 8, 2009 | 2:25 PM
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T. Boone Pickens has backed off his plan to build the world’s largest wind farm in Texas. But not before he ordered 687 turbines at a cost of $2 billion. Which is a pretty large chunk of his estimated net worth of $3 billion.
D’oh!
Pickens, an oilman who has spent the past year stumping for the PickensPlan to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil, told the Associated Press that his plans for the wind farm needed to be scaled back after problems arose with getting power from the proposed site in the Texas Panhandle to a distribution system.
Perhaps Pickens can unload some of those turbines to the new Kit Carson Windpower Project that is planned northwest of Burlington.
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