Developing the largest non-polluting, renewable energy source of electricity in the U.S. is a bad thing?

The problem with the Ogallala aquifer depletion would remain without the Pickens Plan. You only have to look to the Colorado river to see the future of the Ogallala.

If you have cable TV, please try to watch the episode of "Dirty Jobs" where they service a wind turbine. I never knew that a wind turbine is so delicate and complicated. The inside of a turbine leaks oil prodigiously. Many parts become clogged with bugs and dust. Without constant maintenance, lubrication, and replacement of spare parts, a wind turbine becomes permanently useless.

As a system it seems about as complex as military technology from fifty years ago.