Comments on: T Boone Pickens Plans Massive Wind Farms Instead of Foreign Oil http://www.neilshearing.com/2008/07/08/t-boone-pickens-plans-massive-wind-farms-instead-of-foreign-oil/ Neil Shearing's latest up-to-the-minute tips and secrets! Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:53:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Linda http://www.neilshearing.com/2008/07/08/t-boone-pickens-plans-massive-wind-farms-instead-of-foreign-oil/#comment-142012 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:32:24 +0000 http://www.neilshearing.com/2008/07/08/t-boone-pickens-plans-massive-wind-farms-instead-of-foreign-oil/#comment-142012 T. Boone is an oilman who sees $$ on the horizon! He may be altruistic in his mind but who knows better than him where the future money will be! T. Boone is an oilman who sees $$ on the horizon! He may be altruistic in his mind but who knows better than him where the future money will be!

]]> by: scotty http://www.neilshearing.com/2008/07/08/t-boone-pickens-plans-massive-wind-farms-instead-of-foreign-oil/#comment-140675 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:47:50 +0000 http://www.neilshearing.com/2008/07/08/t-boone-pickens-plans-massive-wind-farms-instead-of-foreign-oil/#comment-140675 There is a public Forum for discussions about Pickens plan : <a href="http://www.pickensenergyplan.com">www.pickensenergyplan.com</a> Cheers. There is a public Forum for discussions about Pickens plan :
www.pickensenergyplan.com
Cheers.

]]> by: Paul http://www.neilshearing.com/2008/07/08/t-boone-pickens-plans-massive-wind-farms-instead-of-foreign-oil/#comment-140615 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:55:30 +0000 http://www.neilshearing.com/2008/07/08/t-boone-pickens-plans-massive-wind-farms-instead-of-foreign-oil/#comment-140615 I live in the heart of 'wind country' in Texas. It is an amazing sight to see all the giant windmills streatching for miles and miles without end. The one thought that continually goes through my head is "I wish I owned the land these giants are sitting on". I have heard that each windmill generates a minimum of $500 per month for the landowner who leases the land! Who says buying up desert property is a bad idea! I live in the heart of ‘wind country’ in Texas. It is an amazing sight to see all the giant windmills streatching for miles and miles without end. The one thought that continually goes through my head is “I wish I owned the land these giants are sitting on”.

I have heard that each windmill generates a minimum of $500 per month for the landowner who leases the land! Who says buying up desert property is a bad idea!

]]> by: Eric Blankenburg http://www.neilshearing.com/2008/07/08/t-boone-pickens-plans-massive-wind-farms-instead-of-foreign-oil/#comment-140557 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:03:18 +0000 http://www.neilshearing.com/2008/07/08/t-boone-pickens-plans-massive-wind-farms-instead-of-foreign-oil/#comment-140557 Pickens is a businessman, not a fanatic. Once someone like Pickens (who made billions in oil) gets behind something, it's time to take it seriously because he wouldn't be doing it if he didn't think there was a real market need where he could make a lot of money. Pickens endorsement of wind power does more for its credibility than the support of the fanatical environmentalists combined. Pickens is a businessman, not a fanatic. Once someone like Pickens (who made billions in oil) gets behind something, it’s time to take it seriously because he wouldn’t be doing it if he didn’t think there was a real market need where he could make a lot of money. Pickens endorsement of wind power does more for its credibility than the support of the fanatical environmentalists combined.

]]> by: DJL http://www.neilshearing.com/2008/07/08/t-boone-pickens-plans-massive-wind-farms-instead-of-foreign-oil/#comment-140504 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:30:13 +0000 http://www.neilshearing.com/2008/07/08/t-boone-pickens-plans-massive-wind-farms-instead-of-foreign-oil/#comment-140504 If it's "fanciful," someone ought to tell Denmark (18.5% of total power needs in 2005), Spain and Portugal (10% of total power needs in 2007), and Germany (largest absolute amount of installed capacity, I don't have a percentage). The USA, anyway, is potentially the "Saudi Arabia" of wind (in terms of resource: just read up on "The Dust Bowl" and you'll see why), and a whole lot of Spanish, Portugeuse, and Danish companies are buying/leasing up "huge tracts o' land" in the Plains states for wind development. I can think of lots of things (e.g., attacking Iraq and Iran) that would be dumber than filling West Texas (a/k/a dark side of the moon) with wind turbines. The true constraint, in the US anyway, is transmission (i.e., getting the power from the wind resource -- where very few live -- to the "load" -- the coasts, where the people live). Industry estimates are that this would take $100B: that's 1/6 of what certain US Presidents say that the Iraq War has cost so far, and not everyone accepts this as an accurate reckoning. DJL If it’s “fanciful,” someone ought to tell Denmark (18.5% of total power needs in 2005), Spain and Portugal (10% of total power needs in 2007), and Germany (largest absolute amount of installed capacity, I don’t have a percentage). The USA, anyway, is potentially the “Saudi Arabia” of wind (in terms of resource: just read up on “The Dust Bowl” and you’ll see why), and a whole lot of Spanish, Portugeuse, and Danish companies are buying/leasing up “huge tracts o’ land” in the Plains states for wind development. I can think of lots of things (e.g., attacking Iraq and Iran) that would be dumber than filling West Texas (a/k/a dark side of the moon) with wind turbines. The true constraint, in the US anyway, is transmission (i.e., getting the power from the wind resource — where very few live — to the “load” — the coasts, where the people live). Industry estimates are that this would take $100B: that’s 1/6 of what certain US Presidents say that the Iraq War has cost so far, and not everyone accepts this as an accurate reckoning.

DJL

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