[biblewonk]

3 whole states, that's a lot of acrage. If we blanketed those in modern nuke plants how much more energy could we produce? Wind power can get there but right now our generating technology just isn't there for it.

As I stated, the land is not "used up". You can still have cows and desert and wasteland or even corn fields. What more do you want from the technology? The bottom line is cost per kwhr. Earlier comments you have made show that you don't really know this part of the equation.

[discostu]

It's used up where I've seen it. you can't use modern irrigation systems around it, you can't build modern cities around it. You can maybe do some second thing in a half-assed form around it, but that's like saying that because you could play handball on the wall around a nuclear powerplant the land isn't used up. The bottom line isn't cost perkwhr, it's also acrage per kwhr, and I know the equation well enough to know that as the technology currently stands windpower is a joke and needs to be retracted to the experimental stage (along with solar) until some big leaps are made.