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Comment by Lou De Frog on August 24, 2009 at 5:28am

Dear Trevor.
We have an organizational problem. The US Government is controlled by the Few. It is not a democracy. The only real democracy the world has ever had was in Athens many years ago. Officials were selected by lot and could only serve for one year once in their lifetime. All decisions were made by an assembly of about 1/5 of the population. This form of Government lasted for 200 years and residents would sooner drink Hemlock than live outside their domain. It failed because of outside forces.

We need a change from what we have now and the suggestion that I offer, is for interested parties to start a Sustainable Community Association for their own community. This will attract all the environmentalist and alternate energy people and allow them to pool their resources for their own community. It really does not matter what others do. They are not as bright and will continue to argue over who gets what forever.

Your community website - which can be set up for free - website and url free from spruz.com can offer a discount to members or shopping at green stores in your neighbourhood. You will become the BBB for your community and 'assist' your Municipal Government in making good decisions that will benefit your neighbourhood for the rest of eternity.

Comment by Bruce Eric Montgomery on August 7, 2009 at 2:12pm

The 8th annual Illinois Renewable Energy and Sustainable Lifestyle Fair will be held on Saturday, August 8th (from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.) and Sunday, August 9th (from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) at the Ogle County Fairgrounds, in Oregon, IL.

The Fairgrounds open at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

Comment by William Engwer on August 6, 2009 at 2:39pm

To Jonathan Green, I'm forwarding your dating site spam to the system administrator. Using the Pickens Plan site to initiate your pathetic marketing is a flagrant abuse of the site, and a clear abuse of the terms of use. Get your own website to initiate your spamming. This happens to be Boone's dime. W.Engwer

Comment by Richard G (DICK) Bowman PhD on July 11, 2009 at 9:09am

There are many technical answers/ solutions out there, We have to invest in the RIGHT projects, the RIGHT way.. and somehow get the Washington Crowd to back us -- maybe when THEY know that is RIGHT thing to do-- or not get reelected.. The HUGE funded lobby-folks keep moving their favorite programs to the fore-front. The powerful have a seat at the White House Conference Table.

This is our country, our cities, towns and rural areas -- all hurting for economic up-turn.- thus,-- elected officials need to be reelected ( so they must so plan ) . The huge pile of public money is in their control -- right now. We also need improvements with projects we can afford.

Some of us are optimists. Most investors are sitting on the side lines. The venture capitalists are not venturing. When they do-- they insist on 4000% as they keep backing about 39 losers to one winner. And everyone starts joining the same race as with WIND is GREAT answer-- or others dumping huge R&D funds into photocells-- BUT with gasoline now back down -- current 3% demand loss-- the attraction for many alternate energy systems goes away that would only work at $4.50 gallon. The cleanist energy is SAVING ENERGY-- and that is a great direction-- but not until we have something-- very much different than the standard way we build homes, buildings, and other infrastructure with REAL innovation.-- but that gets squashed by OLD building codes and rules-- thus we need to get the politics in line also-- besides the technical advances in design and structure. This is the direction I am working on-- and looks very BRIGHT-- along with my other PROJECTS-- YES, we can!

There is no single SILVER BULLET--but we need a series of RIGHT answers, done RIGHT, for the RIGHT reason, The small business private sector--can move fast.. quick--turn-on--ime-- to move forward. The academics and big corporations move SLOW. and have few very creative on staff. The Fed and State
governments-- have very few experts-- that can handle NEW-THINK. We know OLD THINK won't work. We also now know how the whole economic global structure has suffered. Depressing recession is here-- big time.

Yes, contact me -- for "something to invest in"--- www.designky@vci.net --

Comment by Jim Morgan on July 6, 2009 at 8:01am

On March 4, T Boone Pickins plan officially declared Brian Sorrentino, CEO of SYNJ, Syndication Inc, "Co-leader" of Maryland's 6th district. He will be interfacing with business and politics in order to gain support and funding for various aspects of the plan.

http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=nmona&cb=1245008445&article=36701096&symbol=NO%5ESYNJ

SYNJjust recently purchased Pinnacle Energy, which itself just purchased a number of bio-fuel conversion units from Methes Energy Canada, and has a number of other plans in the works. SYNJ is currently, in my opinion, ridiculously undervalued, still trading under a penny, but since the addition of Pinnicle has been growing incredibly fast. To me, with the CEO's affiliation with the plan, it seems like an investment in this company would be an investment in the plan itself, I won't kid you, I've put my money where my mouth is. I want our country to be energy independent

Comment by John Reed on July 4, 2009 at 6:37am

I am a Director of a Company that has been converting diesel and gasoline engines to run on CNG for more than a decade. I can tell you that the biggest hurdle to adoption of CNG technology in the USA has been the turf war between CARB (the California Air Resources Board) and the US EPA over just who exactly is the overlord of exhaust emissions.
These two agencie's unwillingness to streamline, clarify or adjust regulations for new technology is legendary.
My company currently has the product and capability to convert 85% of existing in use heavy duty diesel engines to run more efficiently ( more power, zero PM, 30% less CO2, etc) on CNG or LNG than on any form of "clean diesel fuel" for less than $10,000 per engine, but CARB won't allow it...
In California, thousands of trucking, construction and agricultural diesels must be retro-fitted with Particulate Matter (PM) filtration systems or be moved out of the state by this December. The cost of these systems range from $8,000-$25,000 per engine. This ruling will wipeout entire businesses, and thousands of jobs. The retrofitting of these diesel engines actually causes them to use more fuel for the same work, thereby increasing our dependence on foreign oil, and actually increasing Green House Gas production.
CARB will not allow conversion of these very same engines to run on CNG, even though it pays for itself through decreased fuel costs, eliminates PM pollution ( the target of all this legislation), and decreases CO2 and GHG production as dictated by AB32.
Conversion fulfills all the goals, but CARB won't let it happen.
HOW are they stopping it?
According to CARB, if you convert an existing in use heavy duty diesel engine to run on CNG or LNG, they consider it a BRAND NEW engine, and the converting party must now Guarantee/Warranty the motor as if new. For on road engines, this means for 500,000 miles, and the engine must meet 2012 exhaust emissions standard. Doesn't matter if the engine is 10, 20 or 50 years old.
Additionally, as a BRAND NEW motor, each model/engine variant must be CARB and EPA certified to pass the 2012 standard at a cost of over $350,000 per engine per model per year of production.
What if you sell retrofit filters instead? You only have to warranty your retrofit equipment for two years, and there is no requirement to warranty the motor at all. If your system kills the engine, too bad for the owner...
Certification of these retrofits involves a simple durability testing, and they can be certified across a Family of motors covering many variants and model years with a single certification..
We actually sell the PM filters to other companies here in CA making retrofit kits, but we pulled out of that business ourselves because it is THE WRONG SOLUTION.
If CARB would simply allow CNG conversion to be treated the same as the retrofit kits, we could convert thousands of AG pumps in the Central Valley, and eliminate a large reason why they are a federal "non-attainment" area in terms of clean air. We could convert the entire fleet of container carriers at the Ports of LA and Long Beach, allowing them to expand operations as they would now fall well below the air pollution cap that has held back expansion. This creates JOBS.
So if you really want to "INVEST" in the Pickens Plan, invest some time in calling California Legislators and tell them to clean house at CARB...
Oh wait, these are the same idiots that still can't pass a budget....
Dr. John Reed
Omnitek Engineering

Comment by Tim Anderson on July 3, 2009 at 7:50pm

When you figure out a way to let us invest let me know.

Comment by Joseph Chiang on July 3, 2009 at 7:10pm

Can someone stop this Johnathan Green from sending out SPAM?

Comment by Patrick O'Keefe on June 30, 2009 at 11:36am

All you have to do is visit our results on the NYSE - "AMN" Ameron is an infrastructure company commited to growing with wind sector. Quite a jump since last week and we been building towers since 2005.

Comment by Richard Barnard on June 10, 2009 at 8:05am

Bonnie

I agree with Wiliam. How do we get your intelligent, articulate voice heard? Your post was probably the only one in the last couple of months that showed any common sense.

Richard Barnard

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