Do we really want 2,000 more government-mandated, government-subsidized wind turbines in Minnesota?

Xcel Energy is building its first wind farm in Minnesota. - TwinCities.com

...there are many more wind farms than coal plants in Xcel's future, especially in Minnesota.

The company now gets less than 5 percent of its energy from wind in Minnesota, but by 2020, must produce 30 percent of its power from renewable sources to reduce dependence upon dirty coal. At least 25 percent of that clean energy must come from wind.

That translates into roughly 3,000 megawatts of wind-produced energy that Xcel will have to buy or build in the next 12 years.

Put another way, that's roughly 2,000 wind turbines.