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Comment by W. Dan Chance on August 29, 2008 at 4:29pm

We hear about "ear-marks" all the time as a bad thing in legislation coming out of congress but I think an "ear mark" attached to a windfall profits tax on big oil that was dedicated to building the infrastructure to fuel as many hydrogen powered vehicles as there are commuters on the roads today would make a lot of sense. How 'bout it guys?

Comment by Kathy Lee Hart on August 15, 2008 at 8:36am

Thanks for this group - appreciate the efforts here - makes accessing easy – but you know that – I’m just late to the party.

Comment by David Smith on August 13, 2008 at 3:00pm

Amy,

I could not find a contact page for HavePower but if this hydrogen development technique is real the cost of hydrogen production is about to get much cheaper.

This could lead to large scale PV deployment. MIT has developed a new system of creating hydrogen gas with PV.

http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/08/06/mit-researchers-develop-inexpensive-new-catalyst-for-hydrogen-pr/

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/photos/oxygen/oxygendl/Nocera.mov

Comment by amy oconnor on August 13, 2008 at 10:25am

I located havepower's website however I cannot contact Mr Zawatsky from there. I would like to ask him for facts to back up his claims. Anyone obtains any info about this please publish a comment

Comment by David Smith on August 12, 2008 at 6:14am

A combining of S. 3281 and H.R. 3776 would create an environment that would reach the 38% natural gas transition very quick.

Comment by Janice L Stephenson on August 11, 2008 at 9:44am

Thanks for being here. Now I have a place to see what our Legislators are or are not doing.

Comment by dan on August 10, 2008 at 6:18pm

Hello all. As promised, I have finally completed a document that I will be sending to My rep and senators. Please, go to this site

http://push.pickensplan.com/group/organizers/forum/topic/show?id=2187034%3ATopic%3A648499

Down load the document and send me your comments. If you support the letter, or at least the sentiments please email me.
Please, please all look at this and lets push our people to support the Pickens plan.

dan

Comment by Georgia Bill on August 10, 2008 at 7:28am

This is not intended to be political in nature, because Americas Power needs should be on the shoulders of all....please bear with me, as it does point out other reasons for "all" energy sources to be found, least this nation be left behind.....Thanks


On the surface, the Pickens Plan seems logical. The U.S. “wind corridor” is indeed the “Saudi Arabia of wind.” There easily is enough wind energy sweeping over those sparsely populated plains to generate power on the scale Pickens proposes. Even the $200 billion cost of building transmission lines from the scores of thousands of wind turbines envisioned by the Pickens Plan does not destroy the economics of the plan.

There is one fly in Pickens’s ointment, however. Along most of the “wind corridor,” the wind blows the strongest and steadiest before the sun rises; its strength diminishes until the hottest point of the day, just as the demand for electricity, particularly in the summer months, peaks. As a result, replacing natural-gas base load capacity with “wind watts” does not work. Peak loads still will have to be met with natural-gas generated electricity. That will diminish by billions of cubic feet the amount of natural gas available to be converted to transportation fuel, defeating the essence of the plan.

The wind corridor is essentially in a single time zone, so morning-wind-generated electricity cannot be “wheeled” to afternoon consumers. Unfortunately, there is no economical way to store wind watts for use later in the diurnal cycle. Wind generated electricity could be used to pump water “uphill” to run hydroelectric plants to meet peak demand, but pairing hydro with wind more than doubles the infrastructure cost.

The solution Pickens, and the rest of America, ultimately seeks is independence from imported petroleum. That solution is right under our collective noses. John McCain has begun to grasp it. It is increased nuclear base load capacity.

John McCain has proposed forty-five new nuclear plants. Power generated by nuclear plants does not depend on finicky wind. It is there 24/7 and can be quickly “wheeled” anywhere in the country it is needed, if the country’s electric transmission infrastructure is properly upgraded. Those nuclear watts, which, like wind watts, produce no greenhouse gasses, could offset the power currently produced by burning natural gas, freeing that natural gas to be used, as Pickens suggests, for transportation fuel, replacing imported petroleum.

The cost of building forty-five new nuclear plants is the same as the cost of Pickens’s wind turbines. The cost of building the transmission infrastructure for the nukes is less, as the nukes will not be as remotely located as Pickens’s turbines. The quality and number of domestic jobs created by both the Pickens Plan and the plan for forty-five new nukes are roughly the same. The amount of imported petroleum saved is the same. The bottom line: nukes work; Pickens falls short.



Jay Zawatsky is chief executive officer of havePower, LLC.

If France can safely generate nuclear power to the tune of 70-80% of that country's needs, then surely America can archive
even greater....safer....nuclear energy to the American Taxpayer.

Comment by Faye on August 8, 2008 at 8:25pm

This is my favorite group so far! EXCELLENT.

Comment by dan on August 7, 2008 at 10:05am

Here we go. This is the
Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
Committee Members

The Democratic members of the Select Committee are:

Congressman Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Chairman
Congressman Earl Blumenauer of Oregon
Congressman Jay Inslee of Washington
Congressman John Larson of Connecticut
Congresswoman Hilda Solis of California
Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin of South Dakota
Congressman Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri
Congressman John Hall of New York
Congressman Jerry McNerney of California

The Republican members to the Select Committee are:

Congressman James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, Ranking Member
Congressman John Shadegg of Arizona
Congressman Greg Walden of Oregon
Congressman John Sullivan of Oklahoma
Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee
Congresswoman Candice Miller of Michigan

I will track down more in the morning. Off I go for the night. If you live in one of the above members districts, try and arrange PERSONAL meetings over the next 2 months. Good luck.
dan

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