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The Mighty Wind in West Texas

By AAN Staff
august 20, 2003  10:26 am
The Mighty Wind in West Texas
Way out in West Texas, near the small town of Iraan, north of the Fourmile Draw and and south of the Texas Pecos Trail, the wind blows mightily. There, at the Desert Sky Wind Farm, 107 turbines jut 328 feet above the mesa and catch the wind as it rolls off the Barilla and Del Norte mountain ranges. The wind belongs to no one, but its power belongs to San Antonio: Desert Sky generates 160 megawatts of electricity and City Public Service buys it -- enough to power about 40,000 homes each year. San Antonio Current News Editor Lisa Sorg looks at the power of the Texas wind.
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