Do you agree with Boone T. Pickens and the Pickens energy plan?

Question

He thinks we can become energy independent by tapping into the wind corridor that runs through the middle of the country, while expanding the infrastructure for transferring that power to big cities on the east and west coast.

Or is Mr. Pickens becoming Al Gore's bed buddy?!

Answer 1

~~I think he is willing to step up and make a difference. We have to get away fro oil, no matter how painful. I think he is bring hope and renewed energy at a time when it is desperately needed. He is doing something positive, and raising awareness!~~

Answer 2

It's a decent plan! But it won't produce gasoline!

Answer 3

I think it's a plan that makes sense on several levels, but I'm not too sure about Pickens himself

Answer 4

Boone is offering a partial solution that makes business sense.  Natural gas is our best hope for a 50 year transition to these plans of the restaurant grease, fuel cell, solar solutions. Really, what Mr. Pickens is saying makes sense both from a financial and energy supply point of view. In the alternative, try to view a nation driving on batteries.  Will the batteries be free?   Will the dead batteries be cheerfully replaced?   Will rural driving have a service network.  For that matter will urban drivers have reasonable access to battery service stations?

Answer 5

Much more work needs to be done on high temperature super conductors for the plan to work.   Its too long a distance to transport energy over conventional grids without losing vast amounts of power.    It could easily power most of the central states though.   Wind is always blowing somewhere there.