Yesterday I pointed to a story about T. Boone’s promotional spending on the “Pickens Plan.” Today a FrontBurnervian points us to Thomas Firey’s critique of Pickens’ claims, titled, if you couldn’t guess at an appropriate headline, “Pickens’ Hot Air.” Bottom line:
If anything, wind-powered generation seems better suited to replace some coal-fired “baseline” generation. But since coal isn’t a transportation fuel, this displacement wouldn’t reduce the nation’s dependence on oil – unless there’s a breakthrough in battery technology that would make electric cars more practical.
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