Will wind power be the next Kenedy (Ranch, TX) moneymaker?

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA20070617.01B.NZ.State.windfarms.3555ec6.html

In the 19th century, meat and hides brought wealth to the owners of the vast South Texas ranches that covered most of what would later become Kenedy County.

Midway through the 20th century, the discovery of oil and gas on these coastal flatlands south of Corpus Christi dramatically changed the economic model. And now, in a new century, it's changing again.

In the next several years, foreign companies plan to invest more than $1 billion in two large wind energy farms on a remote portion of the 400,000-acre Kenedy Ranch bordering the Laguna Madre.

"We'll build 157 turbines along about 10 miles of coastline. We're starting construction in early 2008, and we'll be generating by 2009," said John Calaway, chief development officer for Babcock & Brown Ltd., an Australian company.

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arms that turn slowly. So the birds and bats can avoid them.

The older ones spun too fast and they couldn't avoid them.

a bunch of old window fans that I'm gonna duct tape together and build my own wind power generator...