http://www.pickensplan.com/
My question is, would this relieve fuel costs to a point where Global Warming effects could be delayed or diminished? Is a change in our procedures possible in just ten years of time? 20% wind power isn%26#039;t even doable itself (look at Denmark which hasn%26#039;t even shut down a coal plant despite getting about there in terms of capacity and which mostly sells the wind power at a loss to Norway to pump water up hill). Report Abuse Nuclear waste is about 100 pounds every 10 years, per plant... and seeing as theres a LOT of radioactive material ALREADY in the earth... its not going to hurt us, even millions of years from now. Report Abuse
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At least it is a plan to talk about.
We need to explore all possibilities but continue exploring for more oil also. What we don%26#039;t use we can sell.
America is not ready to flip a switch yet away from our Oil dependence.
We need to use our own oil, use less if we can find viable alternatives, and sell the rest to the world in what we save.
Oddly enough Wind %26amp; Solar are abundant in the same place where Oil is pumped in Texas today.
West Texas has abundant alternative resources and it is starting to be tapped.
I believe Texas leads the nation in Wind Power production.
I don%26#039;t think Pickens plan mentions Nuclear, which is the smart clean way to create large power production plants to supplement our fossil fuel plants. If it is indeed missing from his plan I would consider the plan incomplete. -
Yes, I have heard of T Boone Pickens%26#039; plan to make a fortune off of wind farms. He%26#039;s also buying up all of the water rights in Texas. This will have no effect on fuel costs as it affects neither supply of nor demand for fuel. It will have no effect on global warming as it does not affect solar activity (the true cause of climate change on this planet).
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I have heard that the Pickens plan would cost between 3 - 30 trillion dollars.
With 300 million people in the US, that between $10,000 and $100,000 dollars per man, women and child.
I don%26#039;t have that kind of money laying around. That%26#039;s $30,000 to possible $300,000 for my wife, daughter and I. I don%26#039;t have that kind on money laying around.
Government can%26#039;t pay for it. They have to raise my taxs on me to get it. Corporations can%26#039;t pay for it, they have to raise their prices to me for it.
How is this going to get paid for? -
I wonder what the carbon footprint of this project will be??
I have to assume that loads of fossil fuel will be used to manufacture, transport and install the turbines???
The wind farm folks haven%26#039;t published anything that I have been able to find.
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I think too much is made of Picken%26#039;s plan. It is worthy I suppose. Pickens claims we aren%26#039;t going to drill our way out of this problem, so I could as easily say we aren%26#039;t going to build wind farms to get us out of this problem either. We should drill, use coal, oil shale, nuclear, etc. It seems to me Picken%26#039;s ego is a little bigger than his plan.
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I%26#039;m more worried more about our country going into debt, and not having a future of my own, or being able to afford gas
than for %26quot;global warming%26quot;... which has yet to be proven.
Global Warming in my opinion is 90% theory -
Al Gore sat down one day and realized he has no legacy. In desperation, he decided that being remembered for destroying his country would be better than no legacy at all.
Bad choice, Al. -
Did you know,
Al Gores house in TN uses 542% the electricity of the avg TN home and 323% more water.
Do you trust a hypocrite? I wouldn%26#039;t -
sure. If we move entirely or almost entirely to clean fuel and energy.