Texas landowners continue fight over wind farm
Long before a Chinese spy balloon captivated and spooked the U.S. public, Kyle Bass foresaw what he deemed another foreign danger slated for skies above the Texas-Mexico border: wind turbines. Dozens of them, roughly 700 feet (213 meters) tall _ as big as San Antonio's tallest skyscraper _ were set to sprout across thousands of scrubby acres near the pristine Devil’s River. Protests that a wind farm would foul one of the cleanest waterways in Texas flopped, but when attention turned to a Chinese billionaire behind the project, state lawmakers raced to pull the plug.
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Texas is currently America's leader in wind and solar power. It provides 28% of America's wind energy. If it were a country, it would be the fifth biggest source. Surprisingly, it's about to eclipse California in production of solar power.
