Austin, Texas is planning to build a ~30 Megawatt ...

If these were all 2.5 Megawatts in size, they would represent 3000 turbines, covering a wind resource area of 450,000 acres, just to produce 1 Gigawatt of base load power. To cover just the current U.S. car and light truck demand of about 500 Gigawatts would take 1,500,000 such turbines covering 350,000 sq. miles. ................
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