Posted on 01/22/2018 10:35:21 AM PST by sodpoodle
I guess his ‘wind farm’ didn’t pan out.................
Was thinking the same thing.
He wants to spend more time as a community activist.
/that is sarcasm.
Much of west Texas is festooned with windmills.
Recall a great story about Pickens he said work ethic is the most important trait for business - he had a paper route during the depression, when his mother asked how much he had saved he had almost $300 at 12 years old during the depression!
I guess his ‘wind farm’ didn’t pan out
if they won’t pay for themselves in west Texas, they will never pay for themselves
Wind farms are the worst idea - they are not very productive, are eyesores on a landscape and cause bird deaths by the millions.
There is more wind turbulence caused by traffic - on highways - which could be harnessed by ground level turbines. Hardly visible and easily serviced.
Surprised Oklahoma State hasn’t made it official and renamed themselves, “T. Boone Pickens U”.
Pickens abandoned his wind energy projects in 2010 in favor of Nat gas.....................
Now if each of those was connected to its own oil well...
Oklahoma State owes him a lot. I remember the old aluminum benches at Lewis Field.
Now first class facilities and well paid coaches are at least making them competitive.
Great guy but I remember how he jumped in with both feet to the whole wind power game:
I’m pretty sure that came up snake eyes.
Wonder if that includes water rights, or they’re part of what he sold off for $103 million already.
Yeah, painful to sit on without some kind of pad.
America will be better off with him gone. He was a huge Obama supporter in 2008, and even backed his green technology plans to shutdown the fossil fuel industry.
The guy used his money to help get Obama elected. So in my book he is just as responsible for tens of millions of small businesses shutting down while putting tens of millions of Americans, like myself out of work.
T. Boone Picken, you can kiss my ass, and take the next bus to hell.
Wildcatters like Pickens have drilled many a hole before striking it rich.
Sometimes the "hole" comes up dry.
T. Boone Pickens is the epitome of entrepreneurialism and the American can-do spirit. The country needs more guys like him.
http://www.arresearchpublication.com/images/shortpdf/1427042611_1158.pdf
Good explanation of highway turbines to harness vehicle turbulence.
Ah windmills...
Was watching a movie and windmills came up and the cowboy (James Stewart??) said the ranch had two windmills but they tore one down because there was only enough wind for one of them....
WV has quite a few of them and everytime I go into a store or business with a windmill in sight I ask if the bird population has gone down AND is it true that it takes electricity to run them to cool off the valley?
That usually ‘starts it’.....
All that energy saving crap and still high gasoline prices and taxes, high unemployment and ALL that coal just sitting there ‘rusting’ away....
Kind of sorta like Venezuela some of the richest oil deposits in the world and they are starving to death...
Reminds one of the old tell the Arabs to drink that oil if they priced themselves out of business.
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