Wind energy faces daunting challenges

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But wind power is also what experts call a "location-constrained resource," meaning that it can't be transported like coal or oil and is thus dependent on a network of lines and towers to reach a market often hundreds of miles away. It is thus burdened by a "chicken-and-egg problem" — wind farms don't want to locate in a site without transmission lines, and utilities don't want to erect lines where there are no wind farms.


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