Commentary on T Boone Pickens' wind and solar comercial

T Boone Pickens' commercial for wind and solar energy only goes half way to the zero carbon solutions we need, and still leaves us importing oil and spewing carbon dioxide. He advocates displacing natural gas for electricity generation and then using it for vehicle fuel. Going further with plugin electric cars and a larger development of renewable energy would enable us to drop our carbon emissions, while entirely reducing our oil imports and usage. Pickens' perspective is as an investing oil man, not a systems level environmentalist.

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[notsolaxboy132]

Mr. Pickens is advocating an extremely detailed, practical, and complete (by your standard) approach to getting us of foreign oil. I say this because in fact, his plan will eventually rid our country of carbon emissions, but for now, a battery will not move an 18 wheeler and that is what the natural gas is for. Furthermore, he is building the largest wind farm in the world and fervently advocates for solar to be explored and implemented into use as well. His number one concern is getting America

[truelyfine]

Yes, natural gas will partly reduce CO2 emissions. No he is not building the world's largest wind farm. I believe he gave up most of his Texas aspirations when Texas pulled tax subsidies for power lines. For wind installation size he is competing with China and Europe. My #1 concern is humanity - expressed as CO2 levels of less than 350 ppm. Don't have a problem with Pickens plan. Just aiming beyond it. Need to tax oil imports - heavily- for floor solar price support.

[truelyfine]

@chuckyko Well, Pickens didn't actually go through with the wind turbines, but he's pushing ahead with natural gas promotion....

[notsolaxboy132]

address the current problem that the technology for electricity is not here yet to move 18 wheelers. If you are so concerned about CO2 emissions, you should be exalting Boone Pickens and his plan, because it is the most practical and realistic approach to reaching your goal of a CO2 free country. Your aim is too far beyond what's doable. Taxing oil imports will further cripple our economy. Let natural gas be the bridge to wind, solar, nuclear, ect. It is the only way to wane us off foreign oil

[notsolaxboy132]

Natural gas will significantly lower CO2 emissions and his wind farm will set a precedent for reusable energy farms in the great planes region while also helping catalyze the production of the power grid. Yes, his wind farm (which will be the largest in the world) has been postponed a year or so due to the recession. But do not be so quick to claim that his plan is incomplete, because videos like this hurt the ethos of very credible people like Boone Pickens. Your plan is incomplete. It does not

[notsolaxboy132]

off of foreign oil which is costing our country over $600billion/yr to nations that are unfriendly to us. Your #1 concern should be America. Going green is inherently a part of the process, because natural gas is a limited resource and wind, solar, nuclear ect. will one day have to replace it. But for now, natural gas is cheap, it's abundant, it's clean, and it's American! I'm sorry. I just get tired of people finding problems with the Pickens Plan. It will save this country!

[NewYorkViolets]

thanks for your commentary. very thoughtful and informative. takle home message: less fossil fuel use and switch to electric cars, yeah?

thanks, Alexander

Peace Corps Volunteer, Guatemala

[truelyfine]

I worked with a fellow 25 years ago who converted his box van to run on propane. I suppose you could do that for your SUV today with CNG. With or without Pickens.

The statistics for urban automobiles seem to be that we drive less than 40 miles a day, alone.

Yes we need a national electrical grid, big enough to be stable and able to send power alternately in each direction depending on the time of day or season of the year. This would allow distributed wind and solar electricity generation.

[josetjack]

Nice vid, but I think that Mr. Pickens was talking about converting to natural gas in large trucks. Rest of it was right on.

[PARKEREAL]

i got a thought let the cia bring drugs to the black and mexican areas put them in jail 4 selling dope during their breeding years and inject some of them with aids. oh shit your goverment already does that