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I opened the article, read '30 acres of wind turbine blades' and immediately closed it.

Come on, 30 acres in Texas? What a nothingburger compared to the footprints of other dirty industries.

Here's a 300-acre pipe yard. https://www.google.com/maps/@31.8107601,-102.3917116,2359m/d...

30 acres is probably, what, 2 H-E-B parking lots?

That whole stretch of Midland/Odessa on 20 is one of the most miserable landscapes I've ever driven through. The crushing heat, the off-gassing flame stacks across the horizon, the man camps, the junk and trash everywhere... all of it is grim.

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