Re: Is the Pickens Plan sound?

Bill Bonde { ''Mr Gore, tear down this wall'') wrote:
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> Major Debacle wrote:
>> Or is Pickens full of hot air?
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>> Can America harness enough wind power and solar power to kick the
>> foreign oil addiction?
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> If the issue was just non-oil energy, why doesn't the US just use
> coal? You've said several times that oil as energy really is
> closely connected to the trans****tation sector. Certainly in the
> US, electrical power from coal is already built out and could
> easily be increased.

It's Pickens Plan... not mine.

You can shoot him an email and ask him directly:

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http://www.pickensplan.com/contact/


>> 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.
>>
> The internal combustion engine, which Al Gore hates, actually is a
> wonderful device that can burn most any gaseous fuel, even gasified
> wood. So it certainly can run on natural gas.
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-- 
Output from 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.

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.