The Great Texas Wind Rush : : How George Bush, Ann Richards, and a Bunch of Tinkerers Helped the Oil and Gas State Win the Race to Wind Power / / Asher Price, Kate Galbraith.
In the late 1990s, West Texas was full of rundown towns and pumpjacks, aging reminders of the oil rush of an earlier era. Today, the towns are thriving as 300-foot-tall wind turbines tower above those pumpjacks. Wind energy has become Texas’s latest boom, with the Lone Star State now leading the nat...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Peter T. Flawn Series in Natural Resource Management and Conservation
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Following a Glider
- 2. The Tinkerers
- 3. The Oil Embargo
- 4. The 1980s
- 5. Ann Richards—and a Big Wind Farm at Last
- 6. Windcatters
- 7. A Wind Requirement
- 8. The Next Decade: Takeoff
- 9. The Future
- 10. The Lessons of Texas Wind
- Postscript
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index