This is not as bad as it sounds. In fact the answer is in the article:
> Wyoming already generates more electricity than it consumes.
> The state already has wind farms, and a 3,000-megawatt installation is under construction in Carbon County.
People will still build wind farms, they'll just export the electricity. This is no different from Germany going "nuclear free" (they still import energy from nuclear plants in France and the Czech Republic). California is a leader in green energy, of which quite a bit comes from hydro of which CA has almost none...but Washington does. Etc etc.
Still, grandstanding does send a message and this one is a stupid one.
People will still build wind farms, they'll just export the electricity. This is no different from Germany going "nuclear free" (they still import energy from nuclear plants in France and the Czech Republic). California is a leader in green energy, of which quite a bit comes from hydro of which CA has almost none...but Washington does. Etc etc.
Still, grandstanding does send a message and this one is a stupid one.