Friday, April 1, 2011

Walker's "Winderloo." Wind Energy Next Big Farming Cash Crop, and Gov. Walker's Next Big Mistake.

While Gov. Walker doesn't see much of a future for home grown wind energy and independence, other more competitive states are plowing ahead, seeing money in "them thar winds."

Dylan Ratigan talks to Gregg Heide of the Iowa Farmers Union, who explains harnessing wind power as the next big cash crop. And Boone Pickens, who added this bit of interesting information.
Boone Pickens: If you look at the costs a kilowatt hour, the most expensive of anything is solar, and that’s $6300 a kilowatt hour. $5300 for nuclear, $5,000 for coal because it’s getting very expensive to clean it up. then you drop to $2400 a kilowatt hour is wind and $ 1500 is natural gas.
 

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