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TexasTowelie

(116,875 posts)
Sun Oct 15, 2023, 11:10 AM Oct 2023

Why America's Most Conservative State is Building its Largest Wind Farm - PolyMatter



Coal is the lifeblood of Wyoming. The Cowboy State alone produces 40% of America’s supply – three times more than 2nd place West Virginia and over 50% more than all of Appalachia. Can Wyoming escape its dependency on fossil fuels for its budget?

Cruel, relentless wind is a fact of life in Wyoming. Can Wyoming and its potential customer, California, surpass the regulatory hurdles to harness the wind power and generate electrical production?
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Why America's Most Conservative State is Building its Largest Wind Farm - PolyMatter (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2023 OP
What's not to like about wind energy. What is there to like about coal. Easy questions. walkingman Oct 2023 #1
If you're Don Blankenshit, it's the other way around peppertree Oct 2023 #4
Well that doesn't... Think. Again. Oct 2023 #7
But, then - you know old Don: peppertree Oct 2023 #8
US coal production is in terminal decline VMA131Marine Oct 2023 #2
They see the hand writing on the wall. republianmushroom Oct 2023 #3
Wyoming would be positively insane not to harness their wind power. Relentless wind, indeed. hlthe2b Oct 2023 #5
We have to, and so we will be... Think. Again. Oct 2023 #6
Wind is a fact of life frankly anywhere on the Great Plains. Relentless and non-stop. We were SWBTATTReg Oct 2023 #9

peppertree

(22,850 posts)
8. But, then - you know old Don:
Sun Oct 15, 2023, 11:38 AM
Oct 2023

The only thing that speaks for him, as far as he's concerned, is his money.

And the GOP judges and congresscritters it buys.

VMA131Marine

(4,653 posts)
2. US coal production is in terminal decline
Sun Oct 15, 2023, 11:17 AM
Oct 2023

Not only that but increasingly production is of sub-bituminous coal which has 67-80% of the heat content of bituminous coal. That means mining more and more tonnage to get the same amount of energy. And wind power is just cheaper.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48696

hlthe2b

(106,390 posts)
5. Wyoming would be positively insane not to harness their wind power. Relentless wind, indeed.
Sun Oct 15, 2023, 11:35 AM
Oct 2023

That must just chap the average WY conservative's butt to have to accept a "green" opportunity, but fortunately, some are not so self-destructive as to move forward.

Think. Again.

(18,072 posts)
6. We have to, and so we will be...
Sun Oct 15, 2023, 11:36 AM
Oct 2023

...moving away from CO2 emitting energy production, I hope the folks of Wyoming get their act together quickly, for their own sake.

SWBTATTReg

(24,140 posts)
9. Wind is a fact of life frankly anywhere on the Great Plains. Relentless and non-stop. We were
Sun Oct 15, 2023, 12:17 PM
Oct 2023

glad to move away from Nebraska (but the people were so nice, so caring, etc.) and get back to a more calmer environment (not as much wind). I'm surprised that it's taken Wyoming so long to take advantage of this resource, why not?

In Missouri, most of the windfarms are in the N of Missouri...there is a blurb in one of our energy bills that stated that utility companies generate I think 5% of their electricity from alternative sources.

What's funny is that I don't see what the hangup is about windmills (tRUMP for example, keeps harping idiotically about windmills), when farmers in this Country for generations had windmills to pump water into their ponds etc.

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