T. Boone Pickens' Wind Farm Blows Away

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T. Boone Pickens' move to scrap his project to build the world's biggest wind farm conjures up a pretty apt Texan expression about the whole ordeal -- "all hat and no cattle."

Yesterday, the Dallas Morning News reported that Pickens was no longer moving forward with his long-talked about plan to build the massive wind project in the Texas panhandle. At one point, Pickens estimated the project could produce a massive 4,000 megawatts of power by 2014.

Instead, according to the report, Pickens plans to spread his wind turbines across smaller plots throughout the Midwest. Last year, Pickens bought up 687 turbines for the project. By the beginning of 2011, a first round of ordered turbines will be landing on his door step, leaving him only a few months to find alternative sites for them. ...