Pickens Plan District Group CA-11

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Comment by Micah Lauer on January 4, 2009 at 7:53pm

Hello CA-03;

Your leader, David Bernal, can use your help. Congress is meeting this week and Inauguration day will be here before we know it!

Now is the time to get involved and help us accomplish our district goals of a.) new member recruitment (500 new members being our target), b.) getting letters to the editor and op-ed articles in support of the Pickens Plan placed in newspapers, and c.) getting the U.S. Senators/Representatives for CA-11 to sign the pledge.

I look forward to all your efforts!

Micah Lauer
Regional Leader

Comment by Mary Anne Carter on December 23, 2008 at 5:51am

I encourage you to attend the Silicon Valley Auto Show, January 8 - 11, San Jose, CA.

Ask the manufacturers when they are going to bring CNG cars to the American market. Given the current situation with the auto manufacturers, this is a great time to ask the question.

Comment by T.S. Jayadev on December 22, 2008 at 5:39pm

I applaud your enthusiasm for CHANGE. I remember the iconic image of President Carter addressing the nation sitting next to the fire place in late '70s. What happened? Administration changed, Oil became cheap and we went back to our old habits. The argument for getting away from renewables was that our religion, free market economy, will decide which technology makes it and which will not. There were no other parameters - social or environmental - in that debate. We are in the same situation as in '70s, but fortunately for renewables, people are more conscious of global warming and interest in renewables is back, which contributed to propelling Obama to candidacy.
My comments had to do with the future of 20% wind by 2020, the technical challenges we face in integrating wind with the utilities. I am suggesting that natural gas can play a key role as a 'bridge technology', supporting wind to improve the high reliability needed of power systems, which wind alone cannot do at such high penetration levels. This combination of technologies takes away the deadly shot that traditionalists are going to take against wind - wind reduces reliability of the power system. We have proven that wind is competitive based on cents/kWH. This suggestion will ensure reliability.

Comment by nvrpc on December 20, 2008 at 7:16am

I am personally tired of hear why we can get off oil. We all know the answer. Those in Washington, DC have been put into office by the oil companies and their investors to work for them and them only. It's time to stop the lobbyist dead in their tracks and do what's good for the country.

Common Sense that isn't so common . .

There was a time when this country had Presidents who acted decisively simply by utilizing executive orders and by doing what was best for this country regardless of world opinion. Presidents who created the world's greatest national highway system and another who had the Hoover Dam built - visionaries who, with the stroke of a pen, put people to work on projects that benefited every citizen. So what became of these leaders of the free world? Where is the President who will institute the construction of Mag-Lev trains, solar energy farms in the Nevada desert and geothermal power plants to lessen foreign oil's strangle hold on the American dream. Hydrogen fuel cells, which have been around for many years, to power our homes and automobiles. And a President who will end the Iraq war, bring our brave troops home and put that $16 billion monthly war cost back into developing and renewing our national infrastructure on projects that will employ Americans and allow them to, once again, make a decent wage. Finally, climate change is decreasing the amount of water available to support the California economy - is it too much to ask that politicians fill the reservoirs to capacity prior to sending the water rushing into the San Francisco bay?

Idealistically all funding for program relative to weapons research should be immediately diverted to alternative energies of which we know can produce our national needs. We need to wise up and take advantage of the four most common world resources available to us everyday but go virtually unnoticed and taken for granted. Those would be the sun, geothermal, the wind and sea. We have the technology to move forward on these issues if we are willing, but as usual in our foolishness we do nothing with our resources and have become self defeating. It’s time to develop an infrastructure that’ll simply make our adversary’s commodity worthless.

For those of you who haven’t a clue of what I’m referring to I’d like to invite you to watch a documentary produced by Modern Marvel’s entitled “Renewal Energy”. In reality there’s no excuse for not doing what you’re about to be educated on, except for politics, greed, poor leadership and continual acts of defiance by those who embrace control at the expense of not only the people of this great nation but of man-kind entirely. In my opinion there’s no excuse for such stupidity, period.

The question is, will you take the time to insist on these changes or just sit there and hope someone else does it for you.

I did not vote for the Obamanator simply because he is a democrat and as everyone knows when these people get into office the first thing they do is raise taxes to support their social programs and go after the gun owners of America so as to pursue their one world older BS. It's time for the Obamanator to do away with the social programs and create jobs by retrofitting the USA as stated above and in turn put those who are looking for that free ride to work in these fields. They'll have jobs, we'll have a new energy infrastructure and all those people will be off subsidies. We ALL win.

I also see no reason why this can't be done in the first 120 days of office

Comment by T.S. Jayadev on December 12, 2008 at 8:23am

Having spent many years in wind energy technology development, I understand the technical issues and challenges of wind. I do applaud T.Boone and also Barack for thinking outside the box. A coupling of wind and gas will meet most of the immediate goals of this country - reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, reduce dependence of foreign oil, etc. We cannot reach 20% of wind or even more without a supporting readily available source. If we want to increase the penetration of wind into the grid, there are various technical challenges for wind integration. It is too simplistic to just say we will use wind and solar, which are variable resources outside our control, without thinking of all the issues of integration with the grid.