The Pickens Plan

The Website, as you might have guessed, is really slow, due to traffic?
I have seen and read a report though, of the content, and generally like the concept.
I have a lot of questions about clean coal though, but there is no question that we have to move from oil.

At least the guy is throwing out some ideas instead of sitting around whining about it! Any politician out there with anything?????

Boy, what a reversal from what Mr. Pickens was talking about several weeks ago oh the Glenn Beck show on CNN. Wind turbines probably do sound good to a person of Mr Pickens means. I received a quote on a residential vertical wind turbine just last week, $8000.00 plus installation for a unit capable of producing 200 watts. This is even more ridiculous than the $80,000.00 for enough solar panels to totally cover the roof of my house, enough to cut 20% off of my $150.00 average electric bill.
DRILL HERE
DRILL NOW

It’s refreshing to see a good ole’ oil boy invest 2 billion and his company resources into Texas windricity. It could be said that Mr. Pickens has sense enough to know which way the winds blow.

I’m a Democrat, and the objections to Wind turbines doesn’t make any sense to me. I think they look quite elegant, actually.

even if we drilled in every county in every state in this nation the price will never go down. once these rich oil barons get a taste of making that much money they will never let it go. wake up people gas has been going up and up and up since we started useing it do you think we drill and gas maigically goes down to a buck a gallon. come on gas will never never go below $3 a gallon again.

Is this the same guy who bet $1 Mil that you could not find any falsehoods in the swiftboating of John Kerry and when faced with the evidence weaseled.

60% of all the electricity australia uses coems from wind. the wind is always blowing and it will never stop.

the less we can drive the more it will help in the long run. we as a nation can vote with our tranportation choices. this can help bring down gas prices and move to alternative energy sources.

Yep Bob, what you say is true. You also ignore the reality that it takes more energy (electricity) to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gasses than we can get back when we burn the hydrogen. Just a minor problem of line losses in the wires. Plus, where exactly is all of that electricity supposed to come from? We might reduce our demand for oil, but we would end up with a net loss of energy and more pollution and CO2 from the coal plants making the electricity than we would have gotten from the cars burning gasoline.

GWP, exactly. We hear nothing but rhetoric from not only politicians, but from the American people as well. We always say we need to do this, or we need to do that. But when it gets down to it, we don’t. Why? Because it’s easier to keep doing what we’re doing. We don’t like change, because it’s hard. I’m even guilty of that. I have a huge problem with one man, a Congressman telling a company that they can’t build a windfarm, offshore, where it will have minimal impact on people, and disturb very little marine life, just because it “might” ruin his view of water. If I remember correctly, these farms would have been miles off shore. So the likelyhood of him even being able to see them is slim. Everyone has to make sacrifices. I’m doing it. But I guess if you have the funds, you don’t have to do it as much. I say go over his head, get backing and the permits to build the farms. Couple that with Solar, and Nuclear, we’d be using very little biomass to power our society. Then switch all cars to run on electricity or fuel cells, and we won’t need oil anymore. But thats nothing but a dream right now. Too many politicians afraid of losing votes. And that, my friends, is the real problem.

The Pickens Plan is simple and effective: a recipe for a complete shutdown by our elected officials. I am concerned that Americans and our system may have become incapable of pulling together for a technological change of this magnitude as has been done with other past national projects. Personal gain, a feeling of helplessness and over regulation has overtaken our desire to do for the country and the common good. How can we make this energy change work? It appears the technology is in place.

$600 billion spent in a waste of a country like Iraq. $600 billion could have built lots of windfarms, solar power plants and hydrogen refueling stations. But nobody cared about gas until it hit our pocketbooks. Good thing this war never hit our pocketbooks cause we might have spoke up more.

Wind, solar – good. Natural Gas (NG) for cars – bad.
Requires a new infrastructure, and does not remove carbon dioxide emissions. May still need liquid NG imports!
Instead we need solar/thermal/wind renewable energy and plug in electric cars to totally remove CO2 emissions.
Using NG is TB Pickens still thinking like an oil man. Got to get away from all things hydrocarbon. Unless we get it from algae or cellulosic materials. Society needs to go farther than TBP wants to go.

Yes I agree that Pickens plan is a good one. I think instead of putting people at risk with nuclear plants, start using wind and sun (solar power).
Maybe Pickens should run for president. So far he has had the best ideas.

Any ideas that would get us off the roller coaster ride of oil, should be considered.
The problem is getting the fat cats in Washington (who aren’t affected by the rising cost of fuel) to do something.
Pickens plan may not be the answer, but at least hes putting his money where his mouth is. Not just talking, or complaining about the problem.

i’d invest if i had money in this man with no hesitation!! he’s smart enough not to accept becoming a “politician”..____Humanitarianism First!!