The AP has a article up today on wind power and Michigan. An excerpt:

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan could produce more than 10 times the amount of current peak electricity if nearly 100,000 offshore wind turbines operated along the Great Lakes, according to a new study. The Michigan State University study, released Wednesday, said offshore winds could produce 320,000 megawatts of energy. “That’s an exorbitant number,” study author Charles McKeown told the Detroit Free Press. Lake shore residents and boaters could oppose the sight of so many turbines, which would have to be outside shipping lanes and not impact the ecology.

Just exactly where are they going to put these 100,000 turbines? The largest wind farm in Texas has about 400 or so turbines on 47,000 acres. If every turbine needs 100 acres or so, we’re talking 10,000,000 acres on the lakes. There’s no way this would ever pass.