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Old Jul 24th, 2008, 04:14 PM   #7 (permalink)

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Originally Posted by hakrjak View Post
I have 80 acres in Wyoming that I bought for pennies on the dollar, and I've been thinking of something similar. Maybe it's time to investigate putting a wind farm up on my property. Could this be the new gold rush? Putting up wind turbines on cheap land in the middle of nowhere and selling the power to the grid?

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- Hakrjak
If your wind farm is in the middle of nowhere, how much are you going to spend to run that electricity back to the power company? I can't see the economies of scale working out with only 80 acres, but I could be wrong.