Quote:LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) _ (B) Billionaire T. Boone Pickens is planning to cash in on the wind energy boom by building the world's largest wind farm in West Texas.

The oil tycoon and Oklahoma native is offering a $6 billion plan to install large wind turbines in parts of four Panhandle counties.

Pickens spokesman Mike Boswell today said the Mesa Power project would produce up to four-thousand megawatts of electricity.

Experts say the facility would generate more than five times the 735 megawatts produced at the present largest wind farm near Abilene.

Boswell says construction of the Pickens project would begin in 2010 and involve as many as 200-thousand acres in Roberts, Gray, Hemphill and Wheeler counties.

The farm would have as many as two-thousand wind turbines.

Pickens met yesterday in Pampa with about 250 area landowners.

bleed blue and gold Wrote:

Quote:LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) _ (B) Billionaire T. Boone Pickens is planning to cash in on the wind energy boom by building the world's largest wind farm in West Texas.

The oil tycoon and Oklahoma native is offering a $6 billion plan to install large wind turbines in parts of four Panhandle counties.

Pickens spokesman Mike Boswell today said the Mesa Power project would produce up to four-thousand megawatts of electricity.

Experts say the facility would generate more than five times the 735 megawatts produced at the present largest wind farm near Abilene.

Boswell says construction of the Pickens project would begin in 2010 and involve as many as 200-thousand acres in Roberts, Gray, Hemphill and Wheeler counties.

The farm would have as many as two-thousand wind turbines.

Pickens met yesterday in Pampa with about 250 area landowners.

i guess oklahoma state needs more money. GET TO WORK BOONE!!!!!!

They didnt even sell out the OU - OSU game last year because of ticket prices.

wow....bedlam had tickets? just wow.

Oh no, this is bad news....All those poor innocent birds that they are going to kill!

How ironic. As of monday, I am now an employee of the company building these windmills.

bleed blue and gold Wrote:How ironic. As of monday, I am now an employee of the company building these windmills.

Pretty sure it's coincidental, but congrats!

Well..Ill be ....You mean to tell me that the big bad businessman responding to market signals could actually start a project that could help reduce our need to burn fossil fuels?

Yes...The freemarket is a beautiful thing to watch.

GrayBeard Wrote:Oh no, this is bad news....All those poor innocent birds that they are going to kill!

Don't worry, Texas birds are smarter, and tougher too, than those hippie birds out in California that keep running into the darn things.

bleed blue and gold Wrote:How ironic. As of monday, I am now an employee of the company building these windmills.

If this means you have to move to Pampa, you have my sympathies...

SouthGAEagle Wrote:

bleed blue and gold Wrote:How ironic. As of monday, I am now an employee of the company building these windmills.

If this means you have to move to Pampa, you have my sympathies...

nah, were shipping them out of here. they're selling for about 1.25mill a piece, and thats with shipping.

Let's hope there are no Kennedy's living in the area because they killed a windmill project in their home town because it would have "altered the landscape" of their view.

In the panhandle no one is around or cares about "altering the landscape", at least they've got that going for them!

smn1256 Wrote:Let's hope there are no Kennedy's living in the area because they killed a windmill project in their home town because it would have "altered the landscape" of their view.

NIMBYs ... don't you just love 'em ! ! !
(Not In My Back Yard)


"The unknowing being led by the uncaring but expecting the best for free, forever" ! Libs ... warts on the face of progress !

bleed blue and gold Wrote:

Quote:LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) _ (B) Billionaire T. Boone Pickens is planning to cash in on the wind energy boom by building the world's largest wind farm in West Texas. .

AND .... W A T E R ! ! !

http://seekingalpha.com/article/24410-t-...should-you

Folks, especially the farming ones, are not going to like this very much, unless they are on the selling end to Boone ! Not too good an idea to be draining the underground water sheds too fast. The country may be better off building an aqueduct, like the one from Northern California to Southern California. It could be built for taking water from some of the flooding rivers of the North Plains to the South Plains. Just a thought !

If you don't know about this HUGE project, you need to take a look !!

http://users.owt.com/chubbard/gcdam/html...ation.html

Home site for the above:
http://users.owt.com/chubbard/gcdam/

Several other sites shown here:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gra...gle+Search

This kind of project could be accomplished several places on huge rivers of the North.

At least, I think so, before tooooooo many lawyers get involved !

GrayBeard Wrote:Oh no, this is bad news....All those poor innocent birds that they are going to kill!

Oh you know Boone has biologists checking bird migratory routes to make sure nothing on the endangered species list flies in the area.

The tree huggers out on the West Coast killed their windfarm.

But far West Texas seems perfect for it. Nothing out there but "Religious Compounds."