I always thought that T. Boone Pickens was brilliant, he made billions out of oil....suddenly he seems dumber than a box of rocks....lets not drill for oil, lets build a windmill....let’s not use nuclear power plants, God will send enough wind to take care of us....
hypotheticaly..if the wind doesn’t blow particularly hard in an area, wouldn’t it be necessary to have a power plant ready and able to take over immediate production of electricity??? If the power plant is there, fueled, manned and capable....why do we need the windmill??
I recently read an article that stated, and showed evidence for, the fact that under the U.S. territory, there was more oil and natural gas than in the entire middle east combined.....let’s go get it and stop shipping money to those who want to kill us.
Case in point-
From the Houston Biz Journal
Calpine Corp. has agreed to provide the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power with wind integration services.
Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
As per the short-term deal, Houston-based Calpine (NYSE: CPN) will provide up to 270 megawatts of firm power.
The company will utilize its natural gas-fired facility, Hermiston Power Project, located in Hermiston, Ore., as well as its contracted transmission resources in the Northwest to integrate the energy output it will purchase from the Windy Point Wind Farm in Klickitat County, Wash