The turbines down here off Hwy 10 on the way to Palm Springs are still rip roaring along. Sometimes you see one or two turned away form the wind but I am sure that's normal.
the wind energy industry is booming. Globally, generation more than quadrupled between 2000 and 2006. At the end of last year, global capacity was more than 70,000 megawatts. In the energy-hungry United States, a single megawatt is enough electricity to power about 250 homes.