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(56,582 posts)76. Wind farms having to pay for producing electricity is a good thing for renewables? (nt)
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Lots of thing! Could be exported, could be stored, but the point is the abundant energy everywhere.
Fred Sanders
Sep 2015
#37
Our port off loads wind turbine blades everyday now. You see them going out by rail and truck all
Dustlawyer
Sep 2015
#34
And only in Texas because Texas' power grid is self-contained and aren't linked with . . .
brush
Sep 2015
#56
Sounds like a "windfall" profit for those shorting the Southwest electricity futures market.
leveymg
Sep 2015
#26
Saying in that area: The wind is always blowing sand, except when it's blowing ice.
Eleanors38
Sep 2015
#30
Pickens is right, the government should build the lines like Ike did the interstates . . .
brush
Sep 2015
#57
Gosh. Imagine what would happen if this was how it was around the whole country?
Octafish
Sep 2015
#48
I don't see any Hillary logos in this thread. Is she against wind power? nm
rhett o rick
Sep 2015
#50
Wind farms having to pay for producing electricity is a good thing for renewables? (nt)
Recursion
Sep 2015
#76