On the recordApril 9, 2003
The volume of wind turbines needed to supply a State like Pennsylvania would cover half of New England. The other part is that is not where the wind blows. In Pennsylvania they have found two places, up in the north central part of the State in my district and in the south central part of Pennsylvania. There are two areas where the wind is the best, and they have developed a wind farm at one and are talking about a wind farm at the other. Where the wind blows best in the far reaches of Texas where there are no transmission lines to get it out. With solar, there are only a few places in the country where solar is regular, and there is no solar power at night, and the few parts of the country that have the majority of the solar available are in places where there are no transmission lines. If we double wind and solar in a 5-year period, we would be 1.2 percent of the energy needs of the world.
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