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