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T. Bonehead
Windpower won’t get it done. He has been floundering lately, might consider retiring.
T Boone is lookin’ to git get some more T-Bills..................
Pickns' testimony before the Senate committee on energy was interesting. He basically said, "do everything-- if it's American it's good." While I agree wind power is never going to provide more than a few percent of our energy needs, (and I know Pickens has invested heavily in Texas wind), put nuclear energy in the equation instead and you have a plan worth enacting.
Somewhere Pickins has the rights to a piece of the action concerning wind power and will profit from it
http://earth2tech.com/2008/04/14/t-boone-pickens-kicking-off-the-worlds-largest-wind-farm/
April 14th, 2008
Our favorite oil-baron-turned-wind-power-wildcatter, T. Boone Pickens, will make the first down payment this month on 500 wind turbines for his plan to build the world’s largest wind farm in Texas, says the Guardian. Over the next four years, Pickens plans to build 2,700 wind turbines that would supply 4,000 megawatts — enough to power 1 million homes.
It’s interesting that Pickens tells the Guardian that the wind farm will cost $10 billion to build, because we’ve previously heard figures closer to $6 billion (via the WSJ). Perhaps Pickens underestimated the cost last year. As we pointed out in February, the cost of the raw materials to build turbines, as well as demand for turbines themselves, have been lifting the upfront costs of building wind farms.
Another journalist who doesn’t understand the term “swift boating”.
Energy independence in 6 easy steps.
#1. Drill
#2. Keep drilling.
#3. Oil-to-diesel plants in every coal producing state.
#4. Oil shale big-time.
#5. Nukes.
#6. More nukes.
Did I mention wind energy? No? If you want to build wind farms in your spare time, fine go for it. Solar, whatever, let a thousand blossoms bloom. But do those 6 and do them now, and we can replace mid-east oil in 5 years. Not 20, not 15, we can do it quicker than you might imagine. We just have to do it. It has to become a priority, and government has to get out of the way.
T Boone (love the name) is a bigger blowhard than most of his tilted windmills.
Nothing wrong with windpower, more is fine, problem is, it just ain’t enough in a more realistic and empirical way.
Keep drilling, keep refining, keep opening nuclear power plants.
“Peak oil” is a long, long way off. Who knows what’s next?
Scuse me if I don’t believe good ole T Boone.
LBJ once said that anytime anyone came up to him and told him that he “was just a good ole country boy” LBJ always put his hand over his wallet. I believe that might apply in this situation.
Didn’t he get out of oil and into alternatives? Good reason for an Ad.
What I want to know is--what does ALGORE plan to do with all the millions of gasoline cars? Crush them to make new cars or sell them to Mexicans?
He intends to make billions investing in alternative energy, reaping government (aka taxpayers' money) funding.
He is going to move BIG TIME into Carbon Cap&Trade trading, to be implemented soon for the phoney global warming that was designed to provide international businesses a cash-cow opportunity at the expense of us all....
Sorry. I differ with the most of you all. I’m for anything that cuts the money supply from the arabs, dictators and commies. I think we should do everything and not rely on any one thing ever again. Oil has got to go as the main fuel in the long run, but drill for now. Just never forget what oil has done to our economy the past 5 years. Anyone ever think what our economy would be if we hadn’t sent all that money for oil overseas the past 5 or more years. Sure Mr. Pickens will profit. Its his money he put up. Seen anyone else putting up any money to do anything to help this crisis lately. They are few. The government wastes money on a lot of other useless things why not some infrastructure investment. Better than some bat study or perverted so called art.
Pickens’ proposed plan to get America off foreign oil by substituting wind-generated electricity
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guess where Picken’s money is being invested heavily. Three guesses only please
Looser article from and idiot reporter. Maybe we should read his plan and not get the watered down MSM spoon fed garbage version.
This wind project is not too far from where I live. Before the Wind project was installed we had frequent power outages. This “Wind Ranch” was built at first by private money then sold to Edison’s partners.
http://www.edison.com/pressroom/pr.asp?id=6696
“The 161-megawatt Wildorado project is the largest wind energy facility in the Texas panhandle region and the largest in EMG’s current portfolio of 14 wind projects in five states. It will provide enough electricity to meet the needs of approximately 48,000 homes.”
They may not look too good but in the center of the US the wind does blow! T Boones project calls for large corridors of Electric lines going east and west to the major urban areas. Wind generators from Texas to North Dakota. Take the Natural Gas fed power plants off line and then convert as many vehicles to run on natural gas as possible.
I don’t know but when an Oilman tells me that we can’t drill our way out of this mess I listen.
T Boone appears to be something that NEITHER of these two politically bankrupt major parties have, he appears to be a leader with an energy plan. Boys like Barry and Juan have been stinking up the Senate awhile, and if either had something significant on energy to play they would have played it by now. Barry GOT NO ideas about anything, and the boy Juan seems more interested in campaign reform and AMNESTY, I cannot criticize T Boone for filling a political vaccuum created by these two out of touch political parties.
T.Boones own ads show the problem with wind power. The windmills don’t work well. In a typicqal farm as many as 10 to 12% are down and not producing.
The panorama in the commercial shows non turning wind mills. In addition to not being very efficient, there is an added penatly for just plain ol not working.
And how PREDICTABLE was that? IMO, the guy's a pirate.
BTW, anyone advocating 'gubermint' control of anything, including your healthcare (let's please avoid that, according to my health-care-professional wife, who has worked in commonwealth healthcare disasters - i.e., socialist SOP areas), and your retirement (a near fatal OOPS, courtesy of your parents, who voted Democrat) has their head (or heads) up their @ss (or @sses). And that opinion is based on almost 30 years of federal employment. FWIW, 'your mileage may vary,' etc...
You REALLY do NOT want to know what I know about the federal gubermint...