“To generate the same amount of electricity as today’s U.S. wind turbine fleet 25,170 MW as of the end of 2008 would require burning 34.4 million tons of coal a line of 10-ton trucks over 13,700 miles long or 112 million barrels of oil each year.”

Source: “American Wind Energy Association”

Photo Source: “Coal Power Plant” by eutrophication&hypoxi a