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Actually, the US is described as the Saudi Arabia of wind. Most of the potential is on-shore which has better economics than off-shore also. http://www.pickens

• penny500 13y ago
  Do you have a more objective source?
  • Someone 13y ago
    What about http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=5252760 http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_... ? "As advances in turbine technology allow areas of moderate wind resource to be developed, more than a tenfold increase in the wind energy potential is possible. These areas, which cover large sections of the Great Plains and are widely distributed throughout many other sections of the country, have the potential of producing more than three times the nation's current electric consumption." (Via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_generation_potential_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_generation_potential_in_th...)