Wyoming has a range war going on. It’s something out of a Zane Gray novel. The problem is wind farms and transmission lines. Wind and solar farms require exponentially more land than conventional power plants, and require an extensive buildout of thousands of miles of transmission lines to transport energy from wherever it is being produced at any given moment to where it is being consumed. A ranch owner described the experience of receiving a letter telling him that a company told him they were going to build a pipeline… read more
June 8, 2023