The Pickens Plan is designed to liberate money from the US Treasury, not to produce energy. The law, not surprisingly, is a giveaway, and Pickens is moving in to make a killing.
“The Pickens Plan is designed .....not to produce energy.”
How can you deny windpower?
It is a well proven fact (about 100,000 MW in existence worldwide last time I looked
1MW turbine in good area produces about 2000-3000 MWh per YEAR at a COST of about 20 $ / MWh (maintenance)
you can get easily 60-80$ / MWh wholesale anyhere in US (except TVA and others)
So lets see
cost per MWh = 20$
whlsl = 80$
profit = 60 $
there is MORE of a benefit to renewables in that they will NEVER give out (solar, wind, hydro, goetherm etc)
Whereas everythng else is finite in general (1000s of years of easy to get stuff, maybe)
gotta think LONG term
LONG LONG term