OT Pickens Plan

[Bubblesitter]

T Boone Picken’s plan definitely has some merit.
Although converting to natural gas autos is problematic from infrastructure and car technology standpoint, and it will take longer than 10 years to just get the infrastructure up.

I personnally have chosen to live near commuter rail an have a very fuel efficient family car.

Household Solar power with Net metering and a plug-in hybrid looks very intriguing to me. Upfront expense is high, but with enough incentives such as tax credits, it becomes economical with payback period of maybe 5-8 years, depending on size, orientation of solar array, etc.

With net metering, during the day your meter essentially runs backwards. You are feeding excess energy into the grid and SDG&E is crediting your account. At night, you are charging up your battery. In California, the best you can do is zero our your monthly electrical bill. In some states, you can actually get positive credit at end of month.

You’ve essentially become a micro power company. With new utility variable rates, that charge higher rates during peak usages times, you do even better. Generating/selling back to utility at higher rate during day and consuming at high while you charge your car.

I have been on the hunt for investments in alternative energy companes, especially ones with defensible intellectual property. All it takes is a breakthrough in semiconductor solar cell energy efficiency and the cost of Solar drops, perhaps on par with Coal. Famed venture capitalist Vinod Khoshla has a whole fund focused on alternative energy.

I think T Boone has got to throw Solar into the mix, althought it is more of a regional play for the Southwest US.

Bubblesitter

[SD Realtor]

I agree Bubble…SDGE sucks right now because they will not officially make a purchase of electricity from microproviders unless the amount meets a certain minimum. I believe that amount of electricity would take approximately 20 acres when translated to land use. That is re-freeking-diculous. Anyways hopefully that sort of stuff will be changed.

I do agree it would be nice for pickens to officially add solar to his plan. The only problem I see with his plan or anything in the plains states whether it is massive solar or wind farms is the absolute 100% probability of tornadoes. Solar farms in the southwest are appealing as places like AZ, CA and NM are not as susceptible to that sort of extreme energy.

[SD Realtor]

I agree Bubble…SDGE sucks right now because they will not officially make a purchase of electricity from microproviders unless the amount meets a certain minimum. I believe that amount of electricity would take approximately 20 acres when translated to land use. That is re-freeking-diculous. Anyways hopefully that sort of stuff will be changed.

I do agree it would be nice for pickens to officially add solar to his plan. The only problem I see with his plan or anything in the plains states whether it is massive solar or wind farms is the absolute 100% probability of tornadoes. Solar farms in the southwest are appealing as places like AZ, CA and NM are not as susceptible to that sort of extreme energy.

[SD Realtor]

I agree Bubble…SDGE sucks right now because they will not officially make a purchase of electricity from microproviders unless the amount meets a certain minimum. I believe that amount of electricity would take approximately 20 acres when translated to land use. That is re-freeking-diculous. Anyways hopefully that sort of stuff will be changed.

I do agree it would be nice for pickens to officially add solar to his plan. The only problem I see with his plan or anything in the plains states whether it is massive solar or wind farms is the absolute 100% probability of tornadoes. Solar farms in the southwest are appealing as places like AZ, CA and NM are not as susceptible to that sort of extreme energy.

[SD Realtor]

I agree Bubble…SDGE sucks right now because they will not officially make a purchase of electricity from microproviders unless the amount meets a certain minimum. I believe that amount of electricity would take approximately 20 acres when translated to land use. That is re-freeking-diculous. Anyways hopefully that sort of stuff will be changed.

I do agree it would be nice for pickens to officially add solar to his plan. The only problem I see with his plan or anything in the plains states whether it is massive solar or wind farms is the absolute 100% probability of tornadoes. Solar farms in the southwest are appealing as places like AZ, CA and NM are not as susceptible to that sort of extreme energy.

[SD Realtor]

I agree Bubble…SDGE sucks right now because they will not officially make a purchase of electricity from microproviders unless the amount meets a certain minimum. I believe that amount of electricity would take approximately 20 acres when translated to land use. That is re-freeking-diculous. Anyways hopefully that sort of stuff will be changed.

I do agree it would be nice for pickens to officially add solar to his plan. The only problem I see with his plan or anything in the plains states whether it is massive solar or wind farms is the absolute 100% probability of tornadoes. Solar farms in the southwest are appealing as places like AZ, CA and NM are not as susceptible to that sort of extreme energy.

[peterb]

Pickens knows his oil business!! I saw an interview with him on CSPAN about 1.5 years ago and he said then that gas would hit at least $4/gallon in a year. And he also said that we’re at or passing peak oil production. (Chevron and Exxon recently have announced they will not increase oil production for at least the next two years.)

So it’s no wonder to me that he’s looking at alternative production of electricity. We have built a massive infrastructure for electicity and it’s about the cleanest energy we’ve come up with.

We just need to stop using petroleum to make energy and move vehicles. Solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, tidal, nuclear, etc..will all start to look more “cost effective” as production of oil starts to fall and the global demand increases. Might as well get started on it now. It wont happen very fast.

[peterb]

Pickens knows his oil business!! I saw an interview with him on CSPAN about 1.5 years ago and he said then that gas would hit at least $4/gallon in a year. And he also said that we’re at or passing peak oil production. (Chevron and Exxon recently have announced they will not increase oil production for at least the next two years.)

So it’s no wonder to me that he’s looking at alternative production of electricity. We have built a massive infrastructure for electicity and it’s about the cleanest energy we’ve come up with.

We just need to stop using petroleum to make energy and move vehicles. Solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, tidal, nuclear, etc..will all start to look more “cost effective” as production of oil starts to fall and the global demand increases. Might as well get started on it now. It wont happen very fast.

[peterb]

Pickens knows his oil business!! I saw an interview with him on CSPAN about 1.5 years ago and he said then that gas would hit at least $4/gallon in a year. And he also said that we’re at or passing peak oil production. (Chevron and Exxon recently have announced they will not increase oil production for at least the next two years.)

So it’s no wonder to me that he’s looking at alternative production of electricity. We have built a massive infrastructure for electicity and it’s about the cleanest energy we’ve come up with.

We just need to stop using petroleum to make energy and move vehicles. Solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, tidal, nuclear, etc..will all start to look more “cost effective” as production of oil starts to fall and the global demand increases. Might as well get started on it now. It wont happen very fast.

[peterb]

Pickens knows his oil business!! I saw an interview with him on CSPAN about 1.5 years ago and he said then that gas would hit at least $4/gallon in a year. And he also said that we’re at or passing peak oil production. (Chevron and Exxon recently have announced they will not increase oil production for at least the next two years.)

So it’s no wonder to me that he’s looking at alternative production of electricity. We have built a massive infrastructure for electicity and it’s about the cleanest energy we’ve come up with.

We just need to stop using petroleum to make energy and move vehicles. Solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, tidal, nuclear, etc..will all start to look more “cost effective” as production of oil starts to fall and the global demand increases. Might as well get started on it now. It wont happen very fast.

[peterb]

Pickens knows his oil business!! I saw an interview with him on CSPAN about 1.5 years ago and he said then that gas would hit at least $4/gallon in a year. And he also said that we’re at or passing peak oil production. (Chevron and Exxon recently have announced they will not increase oil production for at least the next two years.)

So it’s no wonder to me that he’s looking at alternative production of electricity. We have built a massive infrastructure for electicity and it’s about the cleanest energy we’ve come up with.

We just need to stop using petroleum to make energy and move vehicles. Solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, tidal, nuclear, etc..will all start to look more “cost effective” as production of oil starts to fall and the global demand increases. Might as well get started on it now. It wont happen very fast.

[Bubblesitter]

There was article couple days ago on T Boone Pickens in the UT.

Didn’t know he lived big chunk of the year in Del Mar.

With all this oil crap going on, definitely some merits to the plan.

http://www.signon.mobi/sdut/db_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=knzvfo9E&src=cat

[Bubblesitter]

There was article couple days ago on T Boone Pickens in the UT.

Didn’t know he lived big chunk of the year in Del Mar.

With all this oil crap going on, definitely some merits to the plan.

http://www.signon.mobi/sdut/db_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=knzvfo9E&src=cat

[Bubblesitter]

There was article couple days ago on T Boone Pickens in the UT.

Didn’t know he lived big chunk of the year in Del Mar.

With all this oil crap going on, definitely some merits to the plan.

http://www.signon.mobi/sdut/db_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=knzvfo9E&src=cat

[Bubblesitter]

There was article couple days ago on T Boone Pickens in the UT.

Didn’t know he lived big chunk of the year in Del Mar.

With all this oil crap going on, definitely some merits to the plan.

http://www.signon.mobi/sdut/db_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=knzvfo9E&src=cat

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