Re: Is the Pickens Plan sound?

"Major Debacle" <Major_Debacle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:0lKhk.16071$mh5.12790@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Or is Pickens full of hot air?
>
> Can America harness enough wind power and solar power to kick the
foreign 
> oil addiction?
>
> Pickens says that the natural gas that can be freed up from electricity 
> generation by utilizing wind and solar power can be used to fuel
vehicles, 
> thus decreasing demand for crude oil.
>
> Is this a solid idea or is it bull****?

since two of his three premises were taken from my own comprehensive plan 
for ending foreign oil dependence, I would say he is absolutely right on 
those particular points.

notice that Pickens has nothing to say about coal, nor does he talk about 
natural gas-gasoline  hybrid automobiles substituted for gasoline-electric

hybrid automobiles.

I have read some estimates that say we could meet our Kyoto treaty 
obligations merely by decommissioning 4 coal fired plants. but that
capacity 
must be replaced, or preferably exceeded by new plant capacity.

Pickens' plan is great as far as it goes. It needs to go a step further.
But 
more power to him for at least attempting to get something going. Unlike
the 
cites of San Francisco and Berkeley, who claim to be green oriented, yet 
cannot even begin to take the obvious first step of doing a "Pickens Plan"

of their own to get themselves off of coal and nuke generated electricity.



>
> -- 
> Prudhoe Bay peaked in 1998 at 2 million barrels per day. It's been
> declining ever since. Every year, less and less oil is pumped
> from the Prudhoe Bay oil field. Today, less than 700,000 barrels a day
> are being pumped south.

but heaven forbid we should seek out new supplies


>
> Total production from 1977 through 2005 was 13 billion barrels. As of
> August 2006, BP estimated that only 2 billion recoverable barrels
remain.
>
> Prudhoe Bay is running dry.


there are plenty of other oil sources around, and we know where they are.


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