Prominent oilman gives up turbine power 'boondoggle'

Oilman T. Boone Pickens has abandoned plans to build his billion-dollar wind farm in Texas, finally deciding to throw in the towel on one of the nation's most expensive alternative energy boondoggles, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports.

In May 2008, Pickens announced his oil company, Mesa Power LP, would order 687 wind turbines, or 1,000 megawatts of capacity, from GE at a cost of about $2 billion. By 2014, Pickens planned to expand the wind farm in west Texas to a gigantic 4,000 megawatts, about four times the output of a typical nuclear power plant.

"Now, Pickens has decided the idea was a bust," Corsi wrote, "resolving that at best all that might work are small wind farms in limited geographical locations, though Pickens has yet to say where exactly he now considers that wind turbine power might be an economically successful venture."


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