Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/07/2009 2:33:50 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Plans for the world's largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle have been scrapped, energy baron T. Boone Pickens said Tuesday, and he's looking for a home for 687 giant wind turbines.
Pickens has already ordered the turbines, which can stand 400 feet tall—taller than most 30-story buildings. AP Boone Pickens --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"When I start receiving those turbines, I've got to ... like I said, my garage won't hold them," the legendary Texas oilman said. "They've got to go someplace."
Pickens' company Mesa Power ordered the turbines from General Electric [GE 11.01 -0.47 (-4.09%)] (parent company of CNBC)—a $2 billion investment—a little more than a year ago. Pickens said he has leases on about 200,000 acres in Texas that were planned for the project, and he might place some of the turbines there, but he's also looking for smaller wind projects to participate in. He said he's looking at potential sites in the Midwest and Canada.
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SOme advice to Pickens: Stick to oil.
Hey, maybe Big Head Ted will finally become Dead Head Ted and he can put em off Cape Cahd...
I’m surprised his pockets are not lined with “stimulus” money.
Those windmills are the ugliest looking things I’ve ever seen. I don’t want them around me anywhere. We even have one in front of the Rock and Roll Hame of Fame and Museun here in dowtown Cleveland.
He can ride a horse with a lance and charge at them.
Midwest to Pickens: hey, I’ve got some carbon credits I printed up in my garage - how about a trade?
Mr. Boone , I’ll take one.
“a $2 billion investment”
I suspect he’s about to lose his a$$ on this. He got greedy on non existant global warming.
Every few weeks I see one of these huge windmill blades being trucked through Houston. I don’t know where they are coming from or where they are going. Maybe on their way to T. Boone’s garage.
Did a little math here, 2B$/647, that’s like over 3 million dollars per turbine. Pricey little things, aye?
I think he spent about $100 Million on ads last year, if memory serves.
Now that the guvmint isn't going to give him a dime, he wants to get out of his "Wind is the answer" crap.
What is the water usage to cool the turbines? Is a source of such water located near the proposed wind farm? Has he REALLY thought this out? One has to wonder.
He was just on the Glenn Beck Show (with the Judge) talking about natural gas. He kind of glazed over this when the Judge asked him about the turbines.
I just drove through Wyoming the other day. There are a butt-load of them being set up there. Pretty cool to see them transporting those immense parts on the freeway.
Try Washington, DC. There’s plenty of wind there.
Looks like T.Boone just realized that “green energy” is not just picking the right time in the market. It’s really about lobbying, Gov’t bureacracy, tax benefits, political-back-scratching, and vast rules and regulations. In fact, there’s hardly any free-market at all!
Pickens is slowly twisting in the wind.
I’ve got a great idea.....
Since “T” Boner Picker likes the idea so much and has such an excess of capitol to spend, why not purchase and land (himself) and put them there.
Why not? Because even T.Bone knows it will not pay for itself and it is the public that would have pick up the overruns. If he did it, he would not only lose money on the startup costs but daily thereafter. Nobody wants to pay the extremely high cost of wind power.
They come through DFW on I20 westbound and out to West Texas. I’ve seen them routinely for almost two yrs.
Then October 2008 happened.
If T Boone can't borrow money, who can? (Other than Barney Frank voters.)
That’s a lot of carbon right there.
He sure has been begging for some (if you’ve seen his TV ads).
GE, whom the US Gov’t represents, has a big stake in this, so don’t count out any tax money for Billionaire Pickens just yet.
I’ll take one. I can mount it on the top of the Freepmobile next to my satellite dish. Never have to buy another gallon of foreign oil.
I think Pelosi and some of the others “happened” to buy in as well...
Pickens should go talk to the Dutch and the Belgiums!They got lots of wind, hundreds of years of windmill experience and Nuclear Power spplies 98% of Belgium’s Electricl Requirements! Maybe Boone Pickens will finally wake up and understand the Demorats dont care about wind, just about Highjacking AMERICA!
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Nah, just billions in "GoreCredits" ready to go when Obambi creates 'carbon trading'....
Notwithstanding the fact that they’re inefficient, they’re horrible. They destroy any vista.
There are some in the southern end of Hawaii, most are rusted out. Ugly.
” in dowtown Cleveland.”
I had no idea! I’m goin’ to Bo Loong tomorrow. After I’m stuffed with Dim Sum, I’m gonna cruise over and have a look!
He probably litened too much to algore and the MSM pushing globul warming crap.
How funny all the fat cats where going to be smart and created their little ponzi schemes for the dumb public to pick up and fund.
Dum.a.s
Oh, I’m mistaken. Sorry. It’s in front of the Great Lakes Science Center, which is right next to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
According to Keith O. Rattie, the CEO of Questar (S&P 500 company and major supplier of natural gas in Utah)Corporation, who in an adress to Utah Valley University April 2, 2009: (paraphrased) “to generate the equivalent power of a 1,000 megawatt gas fired power plant that takes up 10 to 15 acres of land, you would need FIVE HUNDRED wind turbines requiring 40,000 ACRES of land.”
These things are monstrosities, extremely loud and disruptive to wildlife in comparison to drilling rigs, which are temporary.
Granted, he is in the natural gas business, but facts are facts and a capitalist looks at practical ways to make more money; they seriously evaluated it.
Americas largest solar electricity plant has a capacity of 8.2MW and takes up 82 acres. It would require about 20,000 ACRES to generate 1,000 MW. America has over 1,000,000 MW installed in coal and gas.
My conclusion: It will take much of the free land in the U.S. in order to “go green” using these technologies, and these people call themselves ENVIRONMENTALISTS? We are swimming in natural gas. Convert automobiles to that and lower carbon emissions by 30% and fill up for about $.80/gallon equivalent, put people to work = REAL JOBS to drill, manufacture and install pipelines, build infrastructure for the conversion. These things can be done NOW, unlike these fairy tale green schemes. Look at the facts, lefties. Their solution is not a solution; they just want to tax and penalize the producers.
What foolishness — polluting Wyoming’s countryside with unsightly windmills while we have centuries worth of energy right here in the ground in the forms of oil, gas and coal. There is clearly an ongoing conspiracy to destroy this nation.
It’s greatest sin — being the best and standing head and shoulders above many other nations.
There was a whole pile of them sitting in Beaumont, TX back in October.
UGLY!!!
I saw them hauling the windmill blades ,two at a time ,around the Baltimore Beltway yesterday.
Globullshit---shorter...LOL
Some nuclear cooling towers would look much more, well, cool.
That just gets more brilliant every time I read it. /sarc.
Well, I guess you don’t like windmills.... but to castigate a viable energy source as a “conspiracy to destroy the nation” is rather unhinged, is it not?
It has been common knowledge for decades, even among jr. high school students, that transmission losses average around 50%, typically. That is, half of the oil used to generate electricity is wasted.
The problem is (ignorant) people, who use the power, do not want power plants anywhere near them.
Distributed Nuclear power would be the most efficient solution. After all, it's no big secret where most of the demand is.
If the richest man in the world can't figure that out ahead of time, perhaps he should have asked the (current) "smartest" man in the world, Hussein...
Ye,s they are pricy. Why do you think GE/NBC supports Obama and Global Warming legislation?
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