The One Minute Geographer: The Great Plains and Even More Energy

Map from US National Park Service. Meridian, red oval showing coal fields, and black dots added by the author. (North dot shows Williams County; south dot shows McKenzie.)

We saw in previous posts on the One Minute Geographer how we can learn about the Great Plains by following the 100-degree meridian (longitude line). We saw how that line very roughly follows some of the windiest areas of the USA and how the Plains have become a major area of wind energy production.