Do you think the Pickens Plan is like salad dressing without the green?

Question

Where is all the money going to come from? Wind power requires consistant wind. Natural gas powered vehicles require conversion kits. Solar panels costs are for the rich.

Answer 1

Pickens is a idiot for thinking that the oil price will never come down and oil will hit 200 dollars a barrel. This is just hype to help the democrats run for the November election.



How does this guy even know about wind speeds. He claims that the US has more wind than anyone else. He sounds like he just got out of the loony bin.

Slim, the way you bring down the need for foreign oil is to drill your own. For GOD’S sake, were you not an oil man.

When the wind mills fail to produce enough power, they will be almost indestructible, and be just an ugly site taking up valuable space on our land.

We don’t need wind, nor solar power, they are expensive and would not be anywhere as near efficient as a nuclear plant.

Answer 2

NO, BECAUSE WE ARE PAYING A LOT NOW

AND GETTING LESS FOR OUR MONEY. AND BY THE WAY I HAVE NOT SEEN IT BUT IT SOUNDS GOOD. LESS INVEST.OR REINVEST IN AMERICAN.BUT I DO NEED TO SEE WHAT PICKEN PLAN LOOK LIKE

CAN YOU HELP I NEED TO SEE IT ALL.

Answer 3

For the last time, nobody is banking on wind to meet ALL our energy needs.  It's a part of the solution, not the solution.

I believe the hope is that cars will be manufactured to take natural gas from the start.  This will be much more economical than converting exisiting gas cars.

Photovoltaic solar panels are expensive currently, but concentrating solar thermal plants are not.  A mix of solar thermal and wind will save us tons of fossil fueled energy.

Answer 4

Take a minute and look at your utility bill, now multiply that by the number of households in your utility district.

When they are made to, the utility companies are going to come up with the money, the same way that they come up with the money to build those Co-generation plants.

And solar panels are over 90% profit, just like the TV's, VCR's, and other electronics, as soon as production surpasses demand the price will go down, or build your own,

By the way I have seen the wind farms in the Mojave and Palm deserts, and found them quite beautiful.