[Thermalseeker]

Now he’s trying to sell wind power.

Actually, if you dig a bit deeper you'll discover that T.Boone's wind plans are secondary. The real reason he's pushing these wind farms is water, as in the Ogallala Aquifer. Transmission line corridors also make great places to put water pipelines. T.Boone has been buying up water rights in Texas like they are going out of style and is planning to make his next billion being a water Barron......and he'll use the power of eminent domain, courtesy of the Texas State Legislature, to achieve his goals......

[thinkthenpost]

Oh my, I have been skeptical of Mr. Pickens and have thought the transmission line issue was the fly in his ointment as others have already mentioned. I have heard/read there are between 4-6 wind generated megawatts ready or nearly ready to go online in the Northeast and the transmission line construction has been held up in the courts by our environmentally conscious friends.
I have never ever considered the water angle, but in Texas a pipeline is a common carrier, and has rights of access to right of ways, and if those transmission line ROWs have been established for his wind farms Mr. Pickens may be sitting in the catbird's seat.
I think Thermalseeker may have sniffed out a VERY interesting sidebar to Mr. Picken’s generosity!