Spain Making Awesome Amounts of Power From Wind

How cool is this: Spain sets world record for wind energy. From the article:

Earlier this week, the weather in Barcelona was very, very windy. Little did we know at the time, but as we chattered our teeth in unison, Spain was about to set a world first. From 3am until 8am on Sunday 8th November 2009, more than 50% of Spain’s electricity was generated by wind – according to the Spanish Wind Energy Association, “For several moments, wind energy had the honor of delivering up to 53 percent of total needs”.

Seriously, the equivalent of 11 nuclear power stations’ worth of electricity form wind power alone. This sort of thing re-enforces my view that we can go to wind/solar power in the future, and it can be free for everyone…