Comments on: Pickens: My Energy Plan Is The "Only Plan"

Tells 60 Minutes Wind Power, Solar Energy And Domestic Natural Gas Are The Only Choices To End Country's Oil Addiction

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Daytime Solar Power can also be used for Electrolysis of Water to produce Hydrogen which can then be stored for nightime or future use directly by engines or turbines or steam powered Electric Generators or Fuel Cells.

Even the heat left over by Solar after being converted to steam to drive generators can be put into Salt Water Ponds which can store the heat deep under thermal layers which can then be pumped out and recovered through "Refrigerant Type" closed loop generator systems where the "Refrigerant" is ''boiled'' at a lower temperature and converted to gas to drive the closed loop turbine.

The suggestions above are all "Current Technology" ways to convert and store daytime Solar Power for nightime use. There are lots of others and more just waiting to be discovered or invented.

[xray_s]

I was all for the P plan but the more I read and the more I find out about TBP the more questions I have.
I still like the wind and solar power idea but I have questions about NG in place of gas for transportation. I%u2019m not so sure that by the time NG stations are ready that another less expensive solution might/could be available. ? Don''t believe everything you%u2019re told or read.
It sounds good but be sure to investigate and then make an informed decision. I would like to see less money going overseas but I don%u2019t want to rush into something because someone I don%u2019t know says we must.

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All the scientists say that an area of 100 square miles dedicated to Solar Power at todays present techmologies can provide ALL of the energy needs including transportation for the United States. Guess What.. NO FUEL COSTS.. ZERO as it all comes to us FREE from the SUN !! Solar also gives us the most power when it is needed most.. during the peak of the day when Industries need it and also when air conditioning is in use during hot sunny days.

Wind Power is going up much faster than Solar.. it has the advantage that it can generate power around the clock compared to solar which is during the daytime only.

Solar Power can be used to pump water from a low level reservoir to a high level reservoir which can generate Hydroelectric power over and over again during the night when the Sun is not available. High efficiency Air Compressors can pump air into large underground caverns during the day and then use it to power turbines during the night. Homes and even businesses can utilize Storage Battery / Inverter Systems to provide power during the night and the batteries can be charged from the Solar Powered grid during the day AND can also have their daytime charge augmented by locally attached Solar Cell Arrays.

Part 1

More than One Solution is Necessary

We here in the United States of America have gotten way to comfortable with what was cheap Oil and its resultant cheap gasoline that we have failed to look at other alternatives.

Storage type Hot Water Heaters are an energy wasting luxury that we have been using and continue to use without having any mandates to require use of Solar Hot Water Heating as is in over 90% of Israeli businesses and households or "Tankless" Hot Water Heating as is mandated in nearly every every other country in the World. They all know that Storage Hot Water systems are a huge waste of natural resources and are very costly to operate - so why do we not mandate similar systems?

[ctla567]

Eminent domain is equivalent to dictatorship. Nobody can be allowed to take away anybody''s property away by force whatever the excuse is.

[rgjmudbug]

OH BY THE WAY MR.PICKENS DID NOT LIE! TOO ALL YOU BOHO''S WHO JUST WANT A CHECK AND FOOD STAMPS!

[rgjmudbug]

You DON''T TAKE LAND AWAY FROM THEM ! Just give them the RIGHTAWAY! THINK PEOPLE THINK!

[rgjmudbug]

The idear is to get away from oil! It is part of what makes the EARTH HOT! GET IT! HOT!

[nancyinny]

I noticed no one mentioned eminent domain. In the story, Boone Pickens would use eminent domain across the country-taking away your personal property- for the electric lines to go through. Has anyone thought that it might possibly be your own property being taken away? Here in upstate NY that is exactly what we have been fighting for the past 2 years in regards to an electric transmission line running across upstate NY down to NYC.
If Boone Pickens'' oil company is in such a slump, why doesn''t he look into the oil/gas reserves in the Marcellus Shale in NY? I am confident he has already been informed of the significance of it''s holdings.

[rgjmudbug]

All of you that are not for MR. PICKENS are just cry- babys some body give them a check and food stamps!

[rgjmudbug]

POOR "richhmc" WHAT A CRY BABY BO-HO MAYBE YOU DID''T GET YOUR SHARE!

[rgjmudbug]

Mr. Pickens is the only one with a plan! Join in and get the ball moving! Tell everyone you know! NOTE TOO "richhmc" GET ON THE WAGON ARE JUMP IN THE RIVER! Because I NOT worried about gore- kerry! I''m worried about US IN THE USA! THANK GOD FOR PEOPLE LIKE MR.PICKENS

[richhmc]

"60 minutes" is not being responsible when it allows a man like Pickens to smear John Kerry without asking him to state his reasons for doing so. You shouldn''t allow the one without the other. I''ve lost any enthusiasm I had for Pickens'' energy ideas now knowing his other side. I voted for Gore and Kerry. I''m waiting for the story that states the immense costs we Americans have paid for the great god of republicanism.

[richhmc]

"60 minutes" is not being responsible when it allows a man like Pickens to smear John Kerry without asking him to state his reasons for doing so. You shouldn''t allow the one without the other. I''ve lost any enthusiasm I had for Pickens'' energy ideas now knowing his other side. I voted for Gore and Kerry. I''m waiting for the story that states the immense costs we Americans have paid for the great god of republicanism.

[happyinpa]

everybody: this isn''t brandnew. Boone already has been busy building turbines for some time. I visited my son near Fargo, ND this summer and saw a number of them, just after I emailed my son of Boone''s plan. Needless to say my son knew all about the push for windpower long before I did in PA.

[firststate]

I can''t believe that I agree with T Boone Pickens on a national policy issue but as self-serving as Pickens'' plan is, and there''s no doubt that his wealth would multiply, his plan is reasonable. It''s better than just talking about the problem.

The wind corridor is there. The transmission infrastructure can be built alongside the wind farms, coordinating to insure that the transmission system and generation capacity happen in the same places around the same time, not a wind farm in Kansas and a transmission facility in South Dakota so that neither is immediately useful.

The CNG technology works. It''s a reasonable approach until electric and fuel cell vehicles are practical and the wind generated electricity is cleaner and better alternative. We may as well start the plan, but let''s use American built turbines, transformers, and workers.

[johnpilmer]

CNG is such a great idea for semi trucks. I want it for my car. I blog about this at http://www.pilmerpr.com/blog

[ralpo1]

Why wouldn''t Pickens want to put money in his own pocket? I do.

[johnpilmer]

CNG is such a great idea for semi trucks. I want it for my car. I blog about this at http://www.pilmerpr.com/blog

[ralpo1]

Like Pickens or not at least he has a plan and Obama and McCain are beating the same old drum that got us where we are.