World Cumulative Installed Wind Power Capacity, 1980-2009
Harnessing the Wind
¥Centerpiece of Plan B energy economy
¥Widespread – in every country
¥Increasingly inexpensive
¥Abundant – North Dakota, Kansas, and Texas alone could satisfy U.S. energy needs
¥Plan B goal: 2 million
2-MW turbines installed
by 2020
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The idled capacity in the U.S. automobile industry alone would be sufficient to produce all of these wind turbines.