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in producing wind-generated electricity, he said. Wind farms in place, under construction or planned would “more than satisfy" the household electricity needs of the state’s 24 million residents. Brown said.
"That’s extraordinary," he said of Texas' efforts. "When you invest in a wind farm and the transmission intrastructure. you're investing in an energy system that can last as long as the earth itself."
Wyoming, South Dakota, Maine and a number of European countries either operate or have plans for wind farms. Brown said.
He believes its possible for wind farms (“thousands of them") to provide clean energy to power hybrid cars.
"We could run our cars largely on wind energy and at a gasoline equivalent cost of less than $1 a gallon." Brown said. "We have the technology now to do this. It’s just a matter of getting our act together and both building the wind farms and getting the plugin hvbrids off the assembly lines in the millions."
He also heralded the benefits of switching from incandescent to compact fluorescent bulbs. Fluorescent bulbs require one-quarter the electricity of incandescent ones. Brown stud. A global shift from incandescent to ttuo
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