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Alternative energy developers cash in on area's ideal breezy conditions

Harnessing the Wind

BY D. LANCE LUNSFORD

It's windy, man.

No, not that Windy Man, the disgraced concrete structure that state officials once planned to put around Lubbock highways.

Rather, it's the non-stop howling variety that is, more and more, bringing money to the region. Investors see potential in what people here have known for a long time about the South Plains and Panhandle - it's windy, man.

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