$1.5B transmission lines / 800 miles length = $1.875 million per mile
connecting remote windfields by wire.
4,200 MW / 1M homes = 4,200 Watts/home ???
$10B project - $1.5 transmission lines = $8.5B power
1.8 MW + 2.4 MW = 4.2 MW wind
2.0 MW CH4 + 1.8 MW coal = 3.8 MW carbon
$8.5B  / 8 MW  = $10625 MW
(Carbon plant construction costs do not include recurring carbon fuel
costs)

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http://groups.google.com/group/sci.environment/msg/4af0edb3602effa7
Airtricity, the wind farm operator backs $1.5bn US project

Key points:
* 800 miles transmission lines
* 1,000,000 homes powered
* 4,200 MW wind capable
* 1,800 MW wind from Airtricity

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.environment/msg/324bfba4c6e872ad
Airtricity, Texas companies plan wind, gas, coal power plants

Key points:
* $1.5 billion transmission system
* $10 billion power plants
* 3 years
* 800 miles
* TX currently 2,849 megawatts of wind capacity.
* 1,800 MW Airtricity proposal
* Other partners would add another 2,400 megawatts of wind power,
2,000 megawatts of gas-fired electric power and 1,800 megawatts of
coal-fired power.
* TXU proposed $10 billion to build 11 coal-fired 8,600 MW power
plants.

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.environment/msg/e233e60ba4dd0d22
Airtricity, TX Giant transmission loop would connect energy sources to
the state's main grid.

Key points:
* 800-mile, $1.5 billion electric transmission project has been
proposed
* Besides Airtricity, partners include investment firm Babcock & Brown
Renewable Holdings Inc., Occidental Energy Ventures Corp. and chemical
giant Celanese Corp. Sharyland, controlled by the Hunt family of
Dallas, is a privately owned transmission and distribution electric
utility based in McAllen in the Rio Grande Valley.
* loop could connect up to 8,000 megawatts of power into the ERCOT
grid. The tentative mix, the companies said, is 4,200 megawatts of
wind - enough to power 1 million homes - 2,000 megawatts of gas-fired
generation and 1,800 megawatts from coal.
* On a high-usage day, Wood said, the loop could put about 5,500
megawatts into the ERCOT grid, or about 10 percent of the amount of
power currently used within the grid.