“Big Oil” Man T. Boone Pickens (you can’t make this stuff up) is moving into the wind power market with plans to develop the world’s largest wind farm in the Texas panhandle. The wind power facility will produce 4,000 megawatts of electricity per year, enough to power more than 1,300,000 homes.

The 80 year old Pickens told NPR’s Living on Earth this past weekend:

“For a number of years I’ve watched the wind turbines develop - and I feel like it’s time for it. I think that oil has peaked at 85 million barrels in the world. We’ve got to develop other forms of energy - wind, I think solar will be next, and I hope I’m still around to be in the solar deal.”

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The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Mother’s Day is this Sunday (don’t forget!), so be sure to take a look at some of the great posts we’ve put together in celebration of moms everywhere! Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!

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Rock Port, Missouri (pop. 1395) has become the first city in America to be powered 100% by wind energy. The Loess Hill Wind Farm, built entirely within the cozy confines of Rock Port, is now online with four 1.25 megawatt wind turbines, capable of collectively producing 16 gigawatts of electricity annually. Rock Port’s historic consumption of electricity averages around 13 gigawatts, giving the northwest Missouri town a net surplus of 3 gigawatts of electricity which will be sold to the Missouri Public Utility Alliance.

You can by learning more about wind energy on the website of the American Wind Energy Association, the trade association of the wind power industry. The AWEA educates the public regarding wind power and lobbies politician to create responsible public policy that further utilizes this clean, sensible technology.