"Major Debacle" <Major_Debacle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> OneTwoThree wrote:
>> "Major Debacle" <Major_Debacle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> 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.
>
> I guess the only difference between you and Pickens is the billions of
> dollars he has to make his plan reality.
>
>> 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 guess he wants to leave some of the glory for you.
>
> When are you going to put *your* plan into action?
I write my elected reps, and various talk show hosts regularly. Not that
our
idiot so called reps want to listen to their constituents.
Note that I have NOT surrendered, unlike you.
>
>
>> 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.
>
> Dude... Berkeley's juice comes from hydro. So does San Francisco's.
Dude - both cities are on the Pacific Gas and Electric grid, and therefore
their electricity comes from whatever sources PG&E uses - nuclear, natural
gas and hydro - with less and less hydro as a percentage of the electricty
produced., due to global warming. (Actually due to the long drought here
in
the west, but the leftbots say global warming)
Real tough for anyone to say their electricity is ALL from hydro - once
its
on the grid you have no choice.
>
> --
> 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.
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