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World’s Largest Wind Farm
September 30, 2008 | Mother Earth News

T. Boone Pickens is going after wind power big time. General Electric reports that his Mesa Power LLP has ordered 667 wind turbines. They will be shipped to the site of a future 4000 MW wind farm near Pampa, Texas.

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