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The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind:
Wind turbines across the Great Plains states produced, for the first time, more than half the region's electricity Sunday.
The power grid that supplies a corridor stretching from Montana to the Texas Panhandle was getting 52.1 percent of its power from wind at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday, Little Rock, Arkansas-based Southwest Power Pool Inc. said in a statement Monday.
As more and more turbines are installed across the country, Southwest Power has become the first North American grid operator to get a majority of its supply from wind. That beats the grid's prior record of 49.2 percent and the 48 percent that a Texas grid operator reached in March, Derek Wingfield, a spokesman, said in an e-mail.
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For the First Time, Wind on the Plains Supplied More Than Half Region’s Power
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(Score: 2) by rts008 on Thursday February 16 2017, @03:36AM
I did NOT assert there are no wind farms in Tornado Alley.(although, the only wind turbines I have seen in Oklahoma, have been in pieces loaded on trucks, passing through. I hear there are working wind power-plants somewhere in OK, but I have never seen one. YMMV)
I was replying to the reason for the scarcity(not absence) of them in the midwest, which was specifically asked about.
The local pol's have placed severe barriers for any competition to the oil lobbies.(hint: Ask Boone Pickens how his wind farm projects worked out.)
Oh, and can the Trump-flavored vitriol. Alternative facts, indeed.
Absolutely, you should improve your reading comprehension to avoid this type of mistake in the future. ;-)