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Pickens, Wind and Water
Hooray for T. Boone Pickens on wind power. I wish there were more like him.
Pickens is espousing a renewable energy plan as if he were JFK announcing plans for a manned moon shot in June, 1961.Oil baron Pickens wants to take advantage of the “wind corridor” from Canada to West Texas. The first part of “The Pickens Plan” is a 5,000 mega watt wind, coal and natural gas generating station in Pampa, Texas just northeast of Amarillo. Coal and natural gas would back up the wind turbines during slack times.
We need a thousand more billionaires like Pickens who take seriously the need to get off oil. Certainly the government has been pathetically negligent (save Jimmy Carter) in the near half decade we’ve known our oil supplies would be constrained. Pickens was quoted in a CNN.com story today as saying $600 billion in annual oil imports is the single biggest threat to the U.S. economy. Do ya think? Just look at what the stock market has reacted to for the past month.
Of course, this is the same Pickens who wants to aggressively sell water from Ogallala Aquifer in the Texas panhandle through his company Mesa Water.
Undetermined commented:
Engineers need to lead our society to solve the energy- economy-security problem. Most of our society, government and media don't know what the first and second laws of thermodynamics mean, or the difference between an energy carrier, like hydrogen and an energy source, like wind, solar, gas, oil, and coal. We need to save oil for lubricants, plastics, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. We need to make lots of electricity with the sun and wind, build transmission infrastructure and have workable electric cars that can take us to work every day. My suggestions might create too many good jobs for scientists, engineers and technicians.
Undetermined commented:
T-Bridge, T-Boone's is clean and efficient. Better than nuclear, IMO. What do we do with spent nuclear fuel rods?
Undetermined commented:
To: John Dodge... All power generation has down sides. Look at the back up plan even T. Boone has to implement for his wind (is that really that clean or efficient - just how do start/stop a 5,000 mega watt power plant?) Nuclear is the best option; now you get over it.
Undetermined commented:
Arrowrod, What's with the hostility and this crap about sandal people? Nuclear still has downsides. I wrote the article. Get over it.
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Undetermined commented:
Who wrote this article? If a thousand billionaires would spend a trillion dollars on nuclear power, we would have something. Too bad the "sandal people" are against energy independence.
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