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texas wind power?
by mentorPublished Jun 24, 2008
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Well, this is unexpected - by me at least:
(CNN) -- Billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens is sinking billions of dollars into a new wind farm in Texas. It is likely to become the biggest in the world, producing enough power for the equivalent of 1.3 million homes.
This guy is one of Bush's best supporters, and the lead financier behind the Swift Boat Vets. An old-school Texas oilman...Now he is embracing Wind Power? Maybe he smells a new source of profits. He is having the wind farms constructed on other people's land (he thinks they are an eyesore) Supposedly the landowner will receive royalties of up to $20,000 per year per turbine! Wow. The plan is to build these windfarms out to the point where they can supply 4000 megawatts.
Here's the link to the full article:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/19/pickens.qa/index.html
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GOLO member since December 18, 2007
June 25, 2008 6:24 a.m.
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June 25, 2008 6:34 a.m.
GOLO member since October 16, 2007
June 25, 2008 7:15 a.m.
THIS is exactly why Pickens is doing this. People like him rarely contribute anything for the common public good out of a sense of decency or goodheartedness - it's always about profits or what's in it for me?
As for all the pro and con comments here, there's one that's not been listed. Wind and solar energy are much cleaner than coal and certainly much less dangerous than nuclear.
Gee, if everyone wanted to put one or more of these on their property & the noise made them to be not very good neighbors, just think how far your nearest neighbor would be from you? Sure beats all these subdivisions with houses piled on top of each other. A lot of them look like you could hear the guy breaking wind next door, inside!
June 25, 2008 7:19 a.m.
GOLO member since August 22, 2007
June 25, 2008 7:25 a.m.
GOLO member since December 2, 2007
June 25, 2008 7:31 a.m.
GOLO member since August 22, 2007
June 25, 2008 7:36 a.m.
What's wrong with that? It's what WILL finally lead to new sources of energy.
Your skepticism shows a lack of understanding.
GOLO member since July 12, 2007
June 25, 2008 7:47 a.m.
So, Animal Lover - what exactly have you done out of a sense of decency and goodheartdeness that was a contribution to society? What have you done for all of us just becuase you care?
GOLO member since December 18, 2007
June 25, 2008 7:47 a.m.
GOLO member since December 18, 2007
June 25, 2008 7:48 a.m.
Oh Please... how much of YOUR personal wealth are you willing to invest in risky investments? Have YOU invested a nickel in alternative energy sources? No? Well, why do you think someone else should risk THEIR money to provide alternatives for YOU?
GOLO member since July 12, 2007
June 25, 2008 7:51 a.m.
because they have no clue how everything works. Somehow a business is suppose to survive like that and the economy keep on trucking like that. Only in Star Trek did that work.
GOLO member since December 18, 2007
June 25, 2008 8:34 a.m.
oOOOOHHHHH Look.. another "Evil" corporation being too greedy and doing something purley for profit. GO AFTER and GET em!!!
GOLO member since December 18, 2007
June 25, 2008 8:50 a.m.
GOLO member since September 11, 2008
June 25, 2008 10:33 a.m.
tidbit: Yes, I work. Does that mean I should kiss your b*&% because I have a job & you're like him that I should feel so grateful? And no, I don't feel I have to justify to you what I have done to help others. My good deeds certainly didn't include any tax write offs, or even possibility of any.
"...because they have no clue how everything works." Yes, I have a clue how everything works, but all I see in America today is rampant GREED. Are you part of that problem, like Pickens, that you have to defend him?
Why don't all of you focus on the subject at hand, which is the development of viable alternative energy sources, instead of picking my opinions apart.
June 25, 2008 11:21 a.m.
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