Posted on 07/07/2009 3:35:26 PM PDT by Kozman
The man backing part of the Global Climate scare can't even calculate how to place his windmills correctly, never mind his hot air about the much more complex subject, the climate.
Plans for the world's largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle have been scrapped, Pickens said today. He's now looking for a home for 687 giant wind turbines that he has already ordered. The windmills stand 400 feet tall—taller than most 30-story buildings.
"When I start receiving those turbines, I've got to ... like I said, my garage won't hold them," the oligarch said. "They've got to go someplace."...
(Excerpt) Read more at economicpolicyjournal.com ...
Speaking as a Texan, I say, “YEA.”
Sure he's got room in his garage ~ or maybe he'd be better off using the Loop in Chicago to park 'em.
I know one place he can stick ‘em.
Texas has LOTS of coastline, and the coastlines are known for very constant COASTAL BREEZES. These windmills don’t need, nor want, a high speed wind - putting them along a beach a mile or so inland should just what is needed.
Then we have valleys in the mountain states, these valleys are natural wind funnels, lots of room there. Then the Great Planes - if the Texas panhandle is out - there are gazillions of other places to stick’em.
Maybe I should put myself on a 7 figure salary and offer to help the poor man out?
Better than fiction...LOL!
But when he stood to make billions from it, he sure was out pushing for it then! Americans are waking up slowly to the hoaxes being pulled on them. Let us not forget T. Boone Pickens and Nancy Pelosi are in on it together, and Pelosi’s husband? Yep a wall streeter !
Checklist:
1) Is lib? Or finance idiot?
If yes, forget all they say when they try to talk science.
2) Is education major?
If yes, forget everything they say.
3) Is politician?
If yes, put on disease mask, and walk slowly to the door...and lock after leaving.
Is this the one that Pelosi invested heavily in?
If you allow the cell phone company to put a tower on your land, you get free cell phone usage and about ~$1,000/month for each tower.
Now, if a similar deal were offered to you - free power and ~1,000/month to have a wind tower sitting on your land - would you do it?
I certainly would fill as many windmills as would fit on my parcel, let Mr. Pickens pay off my mortgage for me, give me free power and I’ll put up with having those money-makers blocking my view.
“”They’ve got to go someplace.”...
Shove them up your Obama.
Note to self: Before spending millions on a wind turbine farm, check to see if it can be connected to transmission lines.
NIMBY. Ain't gonna spoil my mountains with those thangs.
Bend over Mr. Pickens. I'll show you where to put them.
Here are a couple of his commercials. Note in the first that he invokes the “next president”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2bOug1d20c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_3RV5SLS-I&feature=channel
He'd hoped to build his own transmission lines but he said there were technical problems.
His "technical problems" were that he lost the ability to use eminent domain to build the transmission lines. That's because the real reason he wanted to build the transmission lines is so that he could put a water pipeline under them.
Pickens wanted to pump water out of the Ogalla aquifer and ship it to the D/FW area.
But they gotta' be real quiet!
AND, no dead birds.
I’m originally from Amarillo, and ran into Tbone from time to time when his Mesa Energy Partners was there. He always had several bodyguards when he was out. Very unfriendly. Stole Amarillo’s gas field (used his money to vote in his commissioners and mayor, who voted to sell him the field for pennies on the dollar). When the people were p.o.’ed, he called Amarillo the “world’s biggest truck stop” and moved his business to Dallas. He’s a creep and a snake oil salesman. Remember, he made millions as a corporate raider. I now live on the coast (near Corpus Christi) and the last few mornings have been dead calm. The wind generators already in place weren’t turning. Ask the guys in the power plants (I train a lot of them). If the plant isn’t running, it typically takes 24 hours to warm the steam turbines with steam and get them online. You are either generating steam or you aren’t. Ask the people in central Texas who were relying on wind when the wind died and they suffered a brownout because the powerplant wasn’t online.
I expected this to be a failure last year when Pickens was all over CNBC promoting his “plan”. Any investor could see it was doomed to fail.
Pickens tries to portray himself as some savvy oilman that has seen the “green” way. But no one reports on how he has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in this speculative gamble, that if it paid off, would enrich him many times over. This guy is nothing but a speculator, much more like a lobbyist than an oilman.
The only thing in his energy plan that makes any sense is his push to use more nat gas. That is smart given the US reserves of nat gas and the ability to actually convert cars, trucks, trains and ships to nat gas, as well as building electrical plants that run on nat gas. That is the only thing that will reduce dependence on foreign oil. Oh, and of course drilling here and drilling now!
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