A bit of a fluff piece, without the pros and cons of wind and of big wind farms v.s. a distributed model, but it provides a look at Pickens's Mesa Power wind investment. , "Don't get the idea that I've turned green...My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money." At a time when some are saying renewables will never be viable, that GE's investment in the same may not help stock prices, that new investments in carbon sequestration and liquidfication and new nuclear plants is the only exit from fossil fuel’s high CO2, the reporter writes that Sweetwater, the wind farms’ site. In an area of Texas beset by economic woes, "is in the “Two new companies opened this week, one servicing the blades of the county's 2,000 turbines, another renting out cranes used in erecting new turbines. The turbines, state of the art models 400 feet to the tip of their blades, span out for 150 miles in any direction. New roads and houses are going up, and local schools and medical centres have been renovated using the influx of tax revenues…" Pickens plans to expand to a whole corridor. ""You need a giant plan for America. Not the pissant 83 megawatt [windfarm] deals being stamped all over the country….It's going to take years to do, but it has to start now....You're getting older so you are running out of time... we've got to get this job finished."