Pickens Planning Largest Wind Farm
Wind energy suddenly seems to have found a lot of takers.Following the recent plans of New York mayor Bloomberg to have windmills literally everywhere within the city,billionaire T Boone Pickens , is planning the biggest wind farm ever constructed.The proposed wind farm is being planned over 200,000 acres of land and an estimated cost of $10.4 billion , including transmissions costs.The wind farm power production is anticipated to be 1,000 megawatts (MW) by the end of 2011 and 4,000 MW by 2014. One megawatt can power about 300 average homes, but turbines do not produce 100 percent of their capacity because the wind varies in speed and blows intermittently
Dismissing the noise generated by turbine operation as a potential disadvantage,Pickens said “ If you’re getting royalties from them, it might be a pleasant sound “ .Considering the recent development of active noise damping systems for limiting turbine operation noise the sound, it seems that it might even make the sound musical !
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September 12, 2008
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