Pickens Energy Plan

[HDJUDOKA]

This man is our best hope yet. Not so much an enviromentalist as a pragmatic capitalist. I hope the people responsible solving the oil problem become fat, stinking rich. They will deserve it.

[jimbol51]

We have millions of rooftops in the west coast, southwest and southeast alone which could generate megawatts of solar thermal or solar electricity without compromising open space. we just need the political and economic will and investment to get this done so we can tap into the energy over our heads.

[BattleofTours732]

Saved By the Sun

A NOVA Presentation

PBS Airdate: April 24, 2007

NARRATOR: Concern over global warming has helped boost panel sales 600 percent since 2000, as more people try to do their part to stave off the crisis. But all the solar panels in America produce only two coal plants' worth of electricity, an amount not even close to meeting the power requirements of a major city. Windpower kills birds by the millions...Just go for a walk underneath these wind towers - dead birds everytwhere

[jimbol51]

don't believe everything you hear or see on tv; always cross-check references and considering where the source of for such claims is coming from. What are NOVA's sources for their claims that windpower is killing millions of birds; how old is the data their citing; what type of wind turbine technology was causing the problem-old turbine technology or the latest turbine technology-this info is critical to evaluating the creditability of NOVA's report.

[BattleofTours732]

The key element in the story is that they are saying that all of the solar panels in the US combined could only take two coal power plants off line. If you swtiched everything over to sun and wind overnight, open space would be compromised dramatically and the naturalists would not stand for that. No enviro has ever offered accurate statistics on what solar and wind would do if it was implemented o the land or the grid. They have no answers, just complaints.

[bkyella]

Keep in the positive. This is a major shift in a lot of things. The old energy policy is a stagnant and unsustainable model. The country is ready for this and it is happening.

Let's Roll!

[jimbol51]

right on bkyella!

[Talent2008]

This is a great idea that can work. But will it? no. First, the US's relationship with the UAE will be in trouble. Second, you can't put a price on wind, like you do oil. So major investment firms ie: Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, etc won't be able to manipulate prices to make a profit, which they are currently allowed to do right now with oil. Mark my words, this plan will NEVER happen. As much as I hate to say it, and would LOVE this plan to be in force, greed rules. You price oil, not wind.