Innovation
Five years ago, when Nick Nixon and Jeff Flood decided to move their small Minnesota concrete company to Texas and target the wind-farm market, folks thought them, well, a bit misguided.
Nearly 2,000
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Aermotor’s windmills don’t produce electricity. They pump water. And the San Angelo company is awash in business.
“Our business has steadily grown in the last 10 years, and in 2006 we had the best
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In the Texas Midwest, wind is the new oil.
Nolan County is Wind Central: Three of the largest wind projects in the nation are based there. Sweetwater alone has 20 different wind projects, according
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In 1981, to celebrate its centennial, the city of Abilene set up an oil-drilling rig to demonstrate the technique of “making hole.”
Unbelievably, and by complete accident, the rig struck oil.
And
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