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Yes, I agree. Pickens is a fraud, a populist with BIG money tied up in the wind energy scam, and he is trying to pull the wool over everyones eyes with his “down home” scatology.

Somebody ought to explain to the masses the reality of “energy density”... how much ‘bang’ you get per square acre of land used. A 20 MW coal-fired plant requires 2 acres of land... That same energy output would require 20 times as much for a wind farm, because windmills must be placed so they do not interfere with each others flow dynamics.

Then you must figure the capital costs for these machines vs their predicted lifespan, and the “carbon footprint” generated for all the manufacturing processes involved to create these machines... they do not simply “poof” out from thin air. Think about the massive concrete foundations required, and all the reinforcing steel, and all the access roads that will need to be built, etc. Then there are peak-load, phasing and duty-cycle problems, as well as getting the wind to cooperate with just the right amount of force when its needed. Nature is never that accommodating. Stuff like this is never cheap as the dreamers think... and they never tell the public about all these “inconvenient” details.

People are such simpleton suckers these days. They will buy into any fad that sounds good. There is always a Pickens character waiting in the wings to fleece the unlearned.

No soap with me, too many years in the tech and engineering fields to buy into this Utopian nonsense.