What if we rethought wind power? | Neal Rickner | TEDxBoston

45 years ago in 1980, we built the first commercial wind farm on the shoulder of Crotch Mountain in southern New Hampshire. That farm was 600 kilowatts. Some of the wind farms we're building today are as much as a thousand times bigger than that farm in southern New Hampshire.To say that we've come a long way on wind energy is an understatement. Now, there's a lot being said about wind energy these days, but here are the facts. Global wind capacity is now,00 gawatt. That puts wind at 8% of total global capa ...