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  scotty

  4 months ago

  There is a public Forum for discussions about Pickens plan :
  www.pickensenergyplan.com
  Cheers.
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  scotty

  4 months ago

  There is a public Forum for discussions about Pickens plan :
  www.pickensenergyplan.com
  Cheers.
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  john

  4 months ago

  I would really like to see John McCain and Barack Obama's Alternative Energy Plan include a strong use of Wind and Solar power integrated to power Hydrogen Distributed Generation across the US (along with Natural Gas powered electrolysis). I've been noticing that although Hydrogen Generation and Fuel Cells have been getting good publicity lately the story and potential is not being represented properly. I am a Hydrogenics (HYGS) stockholder and outside the US this technology is progressing very quickly. Although GM does own 12% of HYGS and does share many IP patents, I'm not invested in HYGS for the opportunity of Hydrogen Cars increasing their revenues in the next year or two. I'm invested in HYGS for the applications that make sense today, such as; 1. Data Center Backup (APC) 2. Wireless Tower Station backup (CommScope), 3. Material handling & small vehicle (forklifts etc), 4. Wind and Solar Hydrogen Generation, power storage and transportation, 5. Fuel Cells providing Buses power in Cities to reduce pollution, etc. 6. Use in Nuclear Power Plants (generate hydrogen and allow for cooling) 7. Natural Gas used to Generate Onsite Hydrogen for fueling Business, Homes and Cars 8. Hydrogen Onsite Generators selling just for Industrial Power (today $ 2B Hydrogen business) I think more talk needs to be around 'distributed power' verses 'centalized power' infrastructure. Home fuelers, military applications, and Hydrogen Cars are longer term discussions compared to these top applications above. These applications that could be part of our US energy solution, short-term, hopefully given government tax incentives to promote adoption. Just look at their partner list, below, so much potential! The way out of this Oil Mess is through diversification and the use of all our alternative energies and through hybrid solutions like Solar Hydrogen and Wind Hydrogen. This is happening outside of the US right now in selected countries that want to win these new alternative energy jobs. I do hope that they will incorporate Hydrogen into his Alternative Energy Plans. These solutions would be able to contribute to solving our problems today, Nuclear Power Plants will take 7-9 years to create, may be cost prohibitive if steel prices keep going up, and do not provide a fix price solution. Partner List: GM , FORD Motor Co , TOYOTA , SHELL HYDROGEN , CHEVRON , CATERPILLAR, Airbus Deutschland and the German Aerospace Center Air Liquide Air Products Linde Russian Utility OAO NSCHK, a state-owned utility in Novorsibirsk, Russia APC ComScope Bell Canada Kion GM IDACORP, Inc. Purolator Courier Ltd., Canada's leading courier company FedEx QTWW Nacco Chevron BP/ British Petro. Public Transit Authorities around the world. China's Largest Energy Companies China Electric Power Energy Group and China National Power an undisclosed Military OEM Gas Natural SDG, a Spanish-based energy services multinational with approximately ten million customers in Spain, Latin America, Italy and France Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Bismarck, N.D. LiftOne, a division of Carolina Tractor/ CAT/Caterpillar Inc BOC (London:BOC.L ) one of the world's largest industrial gas companies GS Caltex , a leading Korean energy company Korean Gas Technology
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  binary_star

  4 months ago

  It's hard not to be skeptical when it seems as though the most outspoken supporters of peak oil are those that stand to gain more profit by convincing the general public that it's true.
  
  I'm skeptical but not cynical. I definitely think that less oil consumption is better. I also think nuclear is not the way to go and given the fact that we know of a free, clean and nearly endless source of energy it doesn't make sense not to put more research and development into harnessing solar energy.
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  MarvinWhisman

  3 months ago

  My home is in Oklahoma and the winds do come blowing down the plane. My uncle who lived in Alva Oklahoma had a wind-mill electroc generator at his home in the 1930s. The famers around my home town all used wind power to pump water from the ground. Th water was stored in a large tank for farm animals to consume.
  So wind-power is not new and it certainly would be an excellent partner with solar generated power in the central Unitd States.
  I would seriously consider building my own wind-powered power geneerator on my 20 acre farm if I could find the technology and could afford the initial cost.
  I am elderly and Mr. Pickens and I are fraternity brothers having attneded Oklahoma A&M College in the 1940s. Even without that connection, I think that Boone Pickens is the foremost advecate of a practical and innovative idea to free us from our dependence upon foreign oil.
  
  Marvin Whisman, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
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