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WIND POWER PROBLEMS FOR TEXAS: ?If Texas were its own country, it would generate more wind power th?

By Glenn Reynolds

WIND POWER PROBLEMS FOR TEXAS: “If Texas were its own country, it would generate more wind power than all but five nations ? the United States, China, Germany, Spain and India. . . . But after a decade of rampant growth, wind is running into a significant constraint: There are too few transmission lines to carry the power. The wind turbines have mostly gone up in the western part of the state ? hundreds of miles from the big cities in central and eastern Texas that need the power. The result is that on windy days, some turbines must shut down because there are not enough wires to transport the electricity they produce.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 13, 2010 (boomark / email).