Wind energy is a stable supply of energy, renewable, clean and eco-friendly. Mesa Power, one of the companies Pickens owns is investing $2 billion in a multibillion-dollar plan to build a wind farm in Pampa, Texas which is being billed as the world’s largest wind farm.
The plan calls for companies to take advantage of the “wind corridor,” that stretches from the Canadian border to West Texas, harnessing energy from wind turbines built in this corridor.
T. Boone Pickens, a billionaire from Texas, thinks his plan could be implemented in 10 years with approval from Congress and private investors footing the bill.
The power harvested from the wind turbines could then be used to supply the power plants in large cities. In turn the natural gas that the power plants would normally use could then be used to power cars, cutting down on the amount of foreign oil Americans would be consuming.
The wind turbine plan is to create a 4,000-megawatt wind farm in Pampa. Mesa Power has already bought the turbines for the first 1,000 megawatts and start construction in the summer of 2010.
Ironically Pickens made his billions in the oil industry.
If it will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and not become even more expensive than what we are dealing with now with the current price of oil, we should go for it! Most Americans agree at this point that renewable, alternative energy is the way for us to go and everyone has jumped on the “go green” bandwagon. Let’s see how soon this billionaire can get a productive wind farm up and the energy harnessed from the wind turbines to reduce our oil dependency! The challenge and expense will be the distribution of the wind power for our consumption in my humble opinion.
