T. Boone Pickens gives an extended account of his plan to break America's dependency on foreign oil. With a combination of domestic natural gas and renewable alternative, Pickens offers an action plan to save America's energy future.
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Just to show a couple of sides, here's an opposing view. This thread isn't meant to be solely about Boone Pickens ideas, rather, about any and all ideas for energy change.
Truth About The Pickens Plan | ZapRoot
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We're pick'n apart the Pickens Plan. And, learn how to recycle your gadgets in our Green Gadgets Segment.
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The Pickens Plan
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"Only On The Web": Katie Couric speaks with energy investor T. Boone Pickens Jr. about his plan to decrease U.S. dependence on foreign oil through the development of alternative energy so...
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Algae: Truly Green Solution to the World's Energy Problem
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Get more information about algae as a source for non-polluting bio-fuel at TheAutoChannel.com. The search for alternative energy sources and fuels has certainly uncovered some surprising and exciting results. One of the North American research and development companies to be leading the algae charge is Valcent Products, Inc., of Vancouver, Canada.
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Norwegian Company Launches THINK Electric Car in No. America
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TH!NK electric car is an environmental vehicle, emission free and 95 percent
recyclable. It reaches a top speed of 100 km (65 miles) per hour and can drive up to 180 km (110 miles) on a single charge. TH!NK city meets all European and US federal motor vehicle safety requirements. Visit TheAutoChannel.com for more information.
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100 MPG Toyota Prius Plug-In : Exclusive Interview
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The Auto Channel's ROAD TRIP talks with Pacific Gas & Electric's Judy Ho about its electric concept car. For more info about alternative fuel vehicles and all cars visit TheAutoChannel.com.
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Dean Taylor at Alt Car Expo 2008
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Southern California Edison is doing things with wind, solar, and smart grids that will change lifestyles for its customers, and quite likely the rest of us.
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Plug-In 2008: ZAP! Product Showcase
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ZAP is a leading distributor of fuel efficient alternative energy vehicles in the United States, and has already established a network of licensed automotive dealers throughout the United States and is preparing to expand internationally. We take a look at the products they featured at Plug-In 2008 including a mini pickup with a solar panel.
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Challenge X Competition Generates More Than Winning Team
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After three-years of competing in the "Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility" challenge, a team from the University of Mississippi has been dubbed the victors.
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Honda Introduces All New Insight at 2008 Paris Motor Show
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The all-new Insight, which will be developed based on this Insight Concept, will be a five-door, five-passenger hatchback equipped with Hondas lightweight and compact hybrid system, with a 1.3-liter gasoline engine serving as the main power source, assisted by an electric motor. While achieving fuel economy on par with the Civic Hybrid, the new Insight will also achieve excellent utility and light and comfortable driving through the adoption of a new platform developed specifically for this vehicle.
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OK, enough of that for a bit....just ran into a lot of interesting stuff.
I'll add more for housing and heating soon enough. Very passive to build with overhangs, to have double door entryways (inner and outer doors) or entrances inside of patios, south facing windows...all sorts of ways to be energy efficient in housing.
Light bulbs! Most of mine are now the low watt, natural sunlight white compact fluorescent variety, purchased on sale at Menards, with a rebate as big or bigger than the sale price. Better light, lower cost and last much longer.
Trees! Plant shade trees close enough to shade from summer sun but allow winter sun!
Simple stuff we all need to do individually. Hope to hear more of these and great, grand ideas here.
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Conserve First! Saving Energy in the Home
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Peak Moment 57: Todd Cory lives in a zero energy home. He started by conserving a whopping 70% of his energy use. Then he installed solar hot water and electricity connected to the grid. This renewable energy installer brims with enthusiastic ideas about having fun consuming less energy, starting with "the low hanging fruit"-- what's easy and cheapest to do.
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Energy Conservation For The Home
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How To Reduce Your Heating Bills This Winter
By Mark D. Tyrol, P.E.
Battic Door Energy Conservation Products
Imagine leaving a window open all winter long -- the heat loss, cold drafts and wasted energy! If your home has a folding attic stair, a whole house fan or AC Return, a fireplace or a clothes dryer, that may be just what is occurring in your home every day.
[NOTE: This is a minute-and-a-half on a fireplace weatherstripping. Keith]
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Energy conservation at home
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Take a 10 minute tour of easily implemented ways to conserve lots of energy, save billions of tons of Appalachian mountaintop, and improve the lives of people living in the coalfields of Appalachia.
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Eco-Friendly House Helps Keep Green In your Wallet
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State energy officials say the average homeowner will pay almost one-hundred dollars more for heat this winter. As homeowners look for ways to cut heating costs, 12 News' Portia Young shows you a home builder who's building a "green" house.
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A Cutting-Edge Architect's Eco-Friendly Home
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Peak Moment 86: As an organizer in the American Institute of Architects, Chris Stafford has long promoted sustainable design. As a natural builder, he worked with straw bale and clay in Greece and Saudi Arabia. For his Port Townsend home, he considered site, size, materials and energy. The 1500 sq. ft home uses mostly non-toxic materials (and fewer of them), foam insulation, metal roofing, solar hot water for space heating, photovoltaics for electricity, and an innovative rainwater collector for landscape irrigation. [www.building-green.net]
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An Engineer Examines a Town's Energy Future
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Here's one that interests me a lot. A town engineer talking about his town's waste of money, money that goes out of town to pay for energy. Are any Wisconsin towns doing anything like this?
Peak Moment 125: How much energy does a town consume? Brian Corzilius sleuthed that out for Willits, California, and got a big surprise: in this community of 13,000 people, nearly 25% of personal after-tax earnings (about $30 million annually) leaves town to pay for energy - gasoline, diesel, electricity and natural gas. His inventory grew into an energy independence report which identified opportunities for local fuels to replace the external inputs. His local "energy mix" considers solar, wind, hydro, biomass, wood gasifiers, co-generation, and sewage plant methane to create electricity. A model for any community, his energy report is online at http://www.willitseconomiclocalizatio...
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Cultivating a Suburban Foodshed
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Here's a real Utopian premise. To paraphrase one of the Kennedys, some men see things that are and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask, "Why not?"
Peak Moment 123: Landscape architect Owen Dell has a vision: transforming suburban neighborhoods into shared "foodsheds" with food-bearing and native plants, and even chickens. Neighbors can start by finding edible plants already growing in their yards, maybe remove fences, plant what works best in each location. Best of all, share the resulting food abundance with one another ("Hey, it's lemon time. Come and get 'em!") and build the social network with shared food potlucks. Tour Owen's own edible landscape yard, including a rooftop container garden complete with visiting cat. [ http://www.owendell.com , www.mesaexchange.org]
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We need to allow full drilling to access our oil reserves as well as push alternate fuels so that we can got off of oil as much as possible in the future.
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I don't think drilling for oil is the answer. The oil companies would love more control of the oil we still have left here.
You think gas prices are bad this year just think, if we drill drill drill like Bush wants then we use up our oil what would happen. OPEC would have full control over what we pay at the pump. Other countries could twist our arm into doing what they want or they cut us off from oil. As long as we have untapped oil we have some leverage.
One of our problems is car manufacturers. They could build more fuel efficient cars but they don't.
GM built and leased the EV1 with the option to buy. They ended up taking all but a few of the cars and Smashed them. Why would GM take such a huge loss on these cars?
GM is getting back into the electric car market. They have the Volt, price tag of $40,000. This bad boy can go 40 miles on a single charge.. Wow 40 miles, way to go GM. GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Electric Car Site About GM-Volt.com
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We currently have around 11 years of oil available to us, if we started drilling now we could help to lower the cost a fuel while pushing alternatives so that within that 11 years we can be free of oil as much as possible.
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New nuclear power plants could give us all the energy we need. Unfortunately we haven't built a new one in years. Nuclear is safe, clean, and cheap. We don't build them because people associated nuclear with radiation and safety issues, but improvements in the last several years have only increased the safety of nuclear plants.
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