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Comment by Paul 1 day ago

Hey Deuce,

I'm sorry for appearing unfeeling, but the press is going to turn the disaster into a protracted period of stagnation and indecision. Sure the $$$ damages will be compensated, but the infrastructure will be years behind schedule.

My hyperbole was not intended to tar the use of gas as the source of the raw energy. In fact the plant was a dual fuel construct burning both gas and oil (bio-oil according to some???) The "Kleen Energy" moniker on the plant was due to the plan to operate the plant on both topping and bottoming cycles to maximize the electrical efficiency; certainly the goal was an improved utilization of the gas/fuel.

While I wasn't close enough to hear/feel the blast, I am in the rate area that will feel the impact of the failure to install capacity. Unless the FERC waives the penalty I'm now looking at a 15% hike in my electric rate for failure to meet the June deadline of having that plant operational.

Just like the fire department yesterday that was told to wait for a photographer before moving a section of a fallen wall to document the location of casualty while survivors were being recovered -- I don't have time to wait for the dogs.

Comment by DubleDeuce 1 day ago

Well Paul, I would at least let the cadaver dogs finish up and the coroner remove all of the bodies before I moved to, as you say, letting "chance favors the prepared mind".

Remember the company AIG? Well, they and other deep pocket insurance companies (Lloyds of London) will repair the damage, pay for the performance bond, and get CT back in the pink before too long.

And as to not permit you too much leeway in your hyperbole, it was NOT a 620MW gas plant that blew up. It was a 620MW electrical generating plant that blew up. Your syntax is akin to that of the Obama administration as they fumble around to find proper names for their various "Kill Capitalism" bills.

The Deuceman

Comment by Paul 1 day ago

620MW gas plant in CT exploded. That is a fact and nothing can change that.

I'm looking for investors that are willing to step up and help me to fill the gap created by the events of the day. Connecticut certainly has demand to accommodate 600+MW of electrical demand.

CL&P was the utility that was to distribute the energy. We have a letter of intent to supply CL&P with solar electricity, and would be able to scale up with an infusion of capital.

Please send me a private e-mail if you are an investor that recognizes the opportunity in this tragedy. Nothing can change what happened, remember, chance favors the prepared mind.

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Comment by DubleDeuce on December 30, 2009 at 11:02am

HAHA Dapo writes,
<<mportant background information on the Issues (OF SECRET REALITY) unfolding and pertinent on your planet NOW! 2010 See report at:->>

But first ya gotta join the tin foil hat church before you get to see the "report". Hells Bells, even my Jehovahs Witness church at the top of the hill will let me come in and examine the gold tablets at my leisure. Okay, not THE REAL tablets but at least a verified transcription of them.

Bad news folks. Ain't nobody gonna tell ya the truth. You gotta find THAT out for yourself. And THAT'S the truff.

The Deuceman

Comment by Dapo on December 30, 2009 at 10:37am

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Comment by J Jay Pirko on December 22, 2009 at 9:28pm

Notice to Entrepreneurs in the New Energy Economy:

ADVANCED-ENERGY BUSINESS INCUBATOR IN WARREN, OHIO

The Youngstown-Warren Ohio region (in northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania) is a hotbed for Green Energy technology and business opportunity.

The Youngstown Business Journal published this article, another example of their outstanding business news coming from the Youngstown region. (I strongly recommend subscribing to the Youngstown Business Journal daily news broadcasts, and in-depth printed newspaper.)

- James Jay Pirko
OH-17 District Leader


NorTech to Help Launch Warren Incubator
-- 12/15/2009
Dec. 22, 2009 6:48 a.m.
By Dennis LaRue
WARREN, Ohio -- Possessed of a vision and fortified with $2.7 million in federal and state grants and another $1.7 million in private funding, a steering committee of 26 will, over the next 10 months, work toward the birth of an advanced-energy business incubator downtown.

Midwife to this birth is Rebecca O. Bagley, president and CEO of NorTech, a consulting firm based in downtown Cleveland whose tagline is “Growing Northeast Ohio’s High Tech Economy.”

Bagley, U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-17 Ohio, state Sen. Capri Cafaro, D-32 Hubbard, state Rep. Tom Letson, D-64 Warren, and Mayor Michael O’Brien, outlined their vision Monday of what such an incubator might achieve in the fields of “advanced energy and flexible materials.”

Long on optimism and short on specifics, the four expressed hope the incubator will rejuvenate manufacturing in Mahoning Valley through infant enterprises that one day produce parts for windmills, geothermal, solar and nuclear energy plants and sources of energy other than petroleum, coal and natural gas.

“Four hundred tons of steel go into a windmill,” Ryan noted.

Bagley offered a number of people she expects would be employed in the incubator -- “50 to 70 jobs” – rather the number of companies that would be housed there.

“We have done some market testing,” she said later, reporting that “450 firms” in the region are interested.

The incubator is incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that will be funded by both the public and private sectors.

The site of the incubator, whether it will be a converted building or a brand-new structure, and its design all must be worked out, to be determined by the steering committee that includes “nine CEOs or CEO-level executives,” Bagley said.

Mike Garvey, president of M 7 Technologies, Youngstown, and William Letson, president of the Trumbull 100, were present at yesterday’s press event in Ryan’s Warren office. So, too, were leaders from organized labor such as Gary Steinbeck, Sub-District 1 director of the United Steel Workers of America, and Mark Catello, business manager of Local 573 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

Tony Iarusso, executive director of Warren Redevelopment and Planning, “will be involved,” O’Brien promised.

“Our role is facilitation,” Bagley said, “walking the steering committee through the process.”

The steering committee will look closely at the Youngstown Business Incubator, which Ryan called “a successful model [that will help the committee] avoid landmines.” He praised its success, noting it has earned national attention and, he hopes, the Warren incubator will too.

O’Brien voiced great optimism about the incubator, which in conjunction with the main campus of Eastern Gateway Community College to be established in Warren, should boost his city’s economy. Bagley and Ryan expect a partnership will develop between the community college and incubator.

“From North Park [Avenue] to Main Street,” O’Brien predicted, “within the next year, all [vacant buildings] will be filled.”

After nearly 30 years of neglect from Washington and Columbus, he rejoiced in the funding for the incubator and the development of the community college campus.

O’Brien pronounced himself “thoroughly impressed by the connectivity” of the Ohio House of Representatives, Ohio Senate and Congress that allowed the public funding of the incubator.

Before founding NorTech, Bagley served as deputy secretary for the Technology Investment Office of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development under Gov. Ed Rendell, says the biography provided by NorTech. There she “was responsible for the administration of several major state programs and initiatives, including the Life Sciences Greenhouse Initiative, the Ben Franklin Technology Partners, the Keystone Innovation Zone program, the research and development tax credit program and the manufacturing strategy.”

In that role, she managed “more than $1.7 billion in investments for Pennsylvania.”

Before that she was an investment banker in New York City where she was involved in oil and gas mergers and raising capital for various energy ventures.

She earned her baccalaureate in marketing at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Copyright 2009 The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.

Comment by John R Cogar, Oregon 2nd. Congressional District Leader on December 4, 2009 at 11:05am

However today I sent a letter to Boone asking for his help in locating a Commercial wind turbine for an Community College here in Oregon that trains students to become wind energy technicians...

This is the letter:

Dear Mr. Pickens,

I am the Second Congressional District chairperson for your group here in Oregon. I have a webpage based on using renewable energy resources for economic development for my area. A Community College here in Oregon has a program educating its students to be wind turbine technicians.. The turbine they have now is over 20 years old and outdated. Vestas has donated a hub to the college but they need to update the rest of the systems and have a small grant to help cover some costs of getting a newer machine.


They are looking for something that has perhaps been damaged somehow that might still be serviceable for their educational purposes that they could buy or that would be donated to them....



Kind of a long shot, but thought you might like to be involved in finding that turbine.. It would be some great publicity for the Pickens Plan if we could be of assistance.



Sincerely,

John R Cogar


If anyone here has any information about locating a turbine please contact me at jc@sustainablelakecountyoregon.com

Comment by Richard Barnard on October 16, 2009 at 6:05am

Gen. Douglas MacArthur introduced Deming to Japan. Good American foresight you think? Not every American is stupid. We probably should have done a lot of other things MacArthur wanted to do at the time. Hindsight is 2020.

Comment by William Engwer on October 15, 2009 at 1:57pm

Deuceman, I agree in principle and specifics with most of what you've said, and I'm familiar with Deming's impact. Before the first gas crunch of the early 70s though, there just wasn't much reason to stray from business-as-usual in the American automobile industry. Gas was cheap. Though quality had indeed been slipping for some time, only a few years earlier American cars were, in their way, the equal of anything else out there. What amazed me was how long it took anyone in Detroit to actually wake up to the the fact that petroleum was a finite resource. I think a lot of the problem lies with the marketing people who were still trying to sell the big car sizzle, rather than letting the actual car guys put out some quality steaks. Pardon the mixed metaphor. The Europeans and the Japanese had been dealing with very expensive petro-fuels for a long time already, and had the engineering know-how to jump into the American marketplace with efficiency, while Detroit dithered. Interesting how so little of the expertise that was readily available to Detroit from their European partners came to these shores in time to have much effect. But, Detroit engineers and designers have ALWAYS been capable of turning out world class vehicles (the Corvette of the last few years proves it...performance equal to or better than Porsche's and Ferrari's best, at a fraction of the cost !!!), but short-sighted management has crippled their ability, going for the quickest buck. SUVs.
Bottom line in my view is that car guys passionately interested in cars need to be developing vehicles, not focus-groups and marketing morons.

The project I've been dumping my own time and money into is the icon for my name, and can be seen at http://push.pickensplan.com/group/cngassexy. I'm currently at a funding impasse and am scrambling, like a lot of the rest of the country, just to pay the rent. It's only recently that I've been trying to attract outside capital, and so far, not much interest. I have heard that it looks too much like the Aptera, which is interesting, because I designed the Solo in 1984, and its first public introduction was in 1996. Wonder who influenced who. William Engwer

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