The Pickens Plan to shuffle our resource usage in order to free America from it’s addiction to foreign oil is picking up steam. Now with over a million members it’s got some political power as well.
T. Boone has recently met with both presidential candidates about the plan. They have no choice now, but to take the former oilman seriously. Energy policy is a huge issue this election and the Pickens Plan website has over 4 million visitors. They’ve got to act interested!
Not only do the candidates take the plan seriously, a national poll shows that most (almost three quarters) Americans believe that it’s possible to completely cut dependance on foreign oil within 10 years. Interesting enough though most Americans have no faith in COngress or the Senate to allow the plan to succeed. Shocking.
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I think the Picken’s Plan is great - but there’s one big flaw. He wants to put all these wind turbines right in the middle of the country. Most of the power needs are on the coast. How will the electricity be efficiently transfered?
Is it realistic to replace so much of the county’s power with wind?
good point Sam.
If you notice the photo in this post: http://www.replacingoil.com/2008/07/wind-power-and-the-bottom-line/
the amount of way and in the center of the country is so much more powerful than on the coasts. I’d don’t have the numbers, but I imagine that loss of efficiency from transferring energy those long distances will be offset by the constant abundance of wind energy in the center of the country. Also, land in areas like the Texas Panhandle are practically wasteland. Not good for agriculture or million-dollar beach houses, and well cheap.
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