Don’t believe T. Boone Pickens when he claims his wind farm will supply 20 percent of U.S. electricity in 2030. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that in 2030 the United States will need 1 billion kilowatts of electric generation capacity to provide about 5,000 billion kilowatt-hours of energy each year. (A year is 8,760 hours long.) Twenty percent of 1 billion is 200 million – that is the capacity proposed by T. Boone. There will be times of the year when this 200 million kW of capacity will supply all of the electricity used in the United States. The country would become a cobweb of high-voltage lines to get this energy to users.