Posted on 08/26/2008 11:16:46 PM PDT by neverdem
He's sellin' natural gas - not a bad idea, but it's a bad idea to lie about it!
Whenever some body holds his cards behind his back, you can be sure he's got the dealer given him the cards he wants ............. FRegards
You are correct but he is taking the current irrational political environment and making lemonade.
T. Boone has a contract with the ports of Long Beach and one other, with L.A. soon to follow, to supply Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) to fuel their container-moving trucks, almost 17,000 of them.. He also owns 12% of a Canadian company that manufactures diesel engines designed to run on LNG which just slip right in where the current engine is. He is also building a fueling network to supply LNG just like gas stations supply gasoline. Additionally, he has convinced several local, state and federal government agencies, as well as some private fleets (Wal*Mart is testing them) to convert to LNG for all their vehicles.
He bought up lots of cheap land in west Texas, some of which he already owns the mineral rights to, where he is installing his turbines. He is also tapping into Ogalala Aquifer to supply Dallas with about five million gallons of water a day. Building that long pipeline is expensive but he is using the right of way for it to piggyback a transmission line for his wind farm, a transmission line he is getting the State of Texas to pay for.
T. Boone may be the new J.R. Ewing but he is certainly no dummy.
Well, duh. It’s not like those of us who are actually educated in this stuff have not been saying this for a long time. Perhaps the “journalism, political science, and other marshmallow majors” might also try to listen to us about: nuclear power, solar power, gasohol, global warming, etc. In fact, if it’s about science, and it’s written by a journalist or a politician, you had better just burn it and free those trapped carbon molecules.
Then just put up what you need.
WHY NOT USE THE CURRENT INTERSTATE HIWAY RITE OF WAYS FOR TRANSMISION LINES? WOULD BE CHEEPER THAN HAVING TO BUYING NEW RIGHT OF WAYS.
Right on... wind may not suck but it blows! Nuke is the way!
LLS
T. Boone didn't make his money by putting HIS money at risk.
When first built, the Interstate Highways network was part of our National Defense plan. The highways would double as military landing and take off strips. High Tension lines would not be suitable then.
Of course this situation may no longer prevail...
Not true.
He has made deals with many landowners to build the windmills on their property and then pay them a royalty on the power generated. Many of these landowners are the same landowners who are participating in Mesa Water, who will be paid royalties on the water from the wells on their land.
That'll be a long wait.
Excuse me? Small scale is not related to the transmission issue. However, I appreciate your positive attitude about renewable energy very much.
Especially the part about how increased demand will spike CNG pricing. Sure, it's cheap now, but demand will drive the price through the roof, at least for the mid term. There's also the costs associated with the infrastructure that will have to be built to distribute CNG for use in automobiles. Pickens never mentions that little ditty.
Another thing Pickens is doing is quite well detailed here in this Business Week article. He's buying up water rights to the Ogallala Aquifer, one, because he knows that water will be in high demand in the coming decades, and two, he gains eminent domain power by forming a water utility. Look closely and you will see that the two are closely tied together because the State Legislature recently passed a law allowing power lines to be piggybacked onto water line rights-of-way. Pickens has his hands in many cookie jars and pockets, especially the Texas State Legislature....
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_25/b4089040017753.htm?chan=search
This was the concept behind the Trans Texas Corridor system.
New multi-modal corridors would be built to accommodate roads, rails, pipelines, power lines, etc.
A lot of installations are now underground. 345kv transmission lines.
Nor is GE, nor Seimens, nor BP, nor Shell, etc etc etc.
Simple answer; politicians won't make as much money if they do.
Yet it works fine in Denmark and they get 20 percent of their power from the wind.
More mis-info.
There are over 100 landowners in Mesa water who have a legal right to the water beneath their land. Pickens will pay these landowners a royalty on their water.
T. Scam Picken pushing his legislation to put power lines to HIS wind fans.
T.Boone is just a fatter Ross Perot.
(Perot opposed Nafta because he was building a border airport with a huge free trade zone along the texas mexican border. Nafta=no need for airport)
And they are PALE in comparison to the people who are opposing Pickens and his land siezures. There are many who ARE NOT going along willingly with Pickens' plans. Try actually reading the Business Week article, among others, I and others have posted for you to read and educate yourself. These articles detail current and future land seizures by Pickens and his efforts to gain eminent domain powers for his PRIVATE projects. These links that have been provided slam dunk your claims that "everyone" is a willing participant to Pickens' water and wind mill plans.
You and your claims have been thoroughly debunked with cold, hard facts from major, mainstream publications, pal. You, on the other hand, have only offered your own opinions and rants with absolutely nothing to back up your claims.
BTW, how long have you worked for Pickens? Is he your uncle or what?
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