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- I am fascinated by recent work on extracting petroleum substances from algae grown in special racks. From what I've seen on the net, it isn't "if" it can be done, it's a matter of scaling it up to useful levels.
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David Bollinger's Blog
A better plan?
No one out here trusts a politician any further than they can throw a brick. Explain why this plan had to be approved, right now, or the end of the world as we knew it was at hand. Because it clearly wasn't. It wasn't urgent enough for the non-Jewish members of Congress to keep working through the holiday. The market clearly didn't think it was all that urgent. Will anyone out here shed a tear for the investment bankers that failed? Yeah, right.
The employees will, in… Continue
Posted on September 30, 2008 at 9:28pm —
My response to Milloy's criticism
My essay follows:
My plan is better!
No! Mine is better, and you're an idiot!
No, no, banana breath! Mine is better, and you're working for the Communists!
Ever want to know why we don't seem able to get anything done since, say, about 1970? Because if you don't agree with me, perfectly, down to the last comma, semicolon a… Continue
Posted on September 30, 2008 at 7:47pm —
An open letter to Congress
While both parties busily swap ends about who is debating the issues and who isn't, I was hoping I might squeeze in my lonely opinion—a distance voice in the wilderness. Or, at least, so it seems. See, I know it isn't really a lonely voice. At a guess, I'd estimate that nearly, well all, Americans want lower gasoline prices, and by extension, lower prices on everything we buy. Except, it seems, our politicians. Surely it's not because they have so much money that it do… Continue
Posted on September 14, 2008 at 8:19pm — 1 Comment
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Happy New Year David,
Last year I helped so many members of Pickens Plan learn about personal home energy plans. It's all about conservation of power, and home power generation, things I have been doing at my residence to lower my electricity costs. Send me a friend request a to add me David, I'd be honored to have you as a friend here.
BTW, Texas: I just posted an article link on my pickens page about Home Wind Systems in Texas. Your state's representatives, governor, and public utility commission officials are not in your corner with this "weak policy" on Net Metering. Instead they have the tables turned against green power for businesses and homeowners. Texas has created multiple sets of rules for loopholes and you have less rights than people in other states. You should read that article, important.
Please congratulate your friend, Dianna Brown, for being invited to the 100CLUB - for those that fax/send in over 100 signed pledges! Dianna also drives the welcome wagon frequently. She is a Pickens hero!
Glad to have you here. Hope you can get others to join this historical effort. We must turn up the pressure. Is there anyone out there that still thinks it is a good idea to borrow 700 billion from China to pay the Middle East for our oil? every year? It is laughable....if it were not so damn stupid. Are we mad enough now to make this happen? Bring more people to this site.
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Kim
Boones CLNE down 7%
Wind energy plan hinges on tax credit
A federal clock is ticking on an ambitious Texas Public Utility Commission plan to build transmission lines to funnel wind energy from West Texas to metropolitan areas. The wind energy industry revolves around a production tax credit that expires Dec. 31. After more than one false start, there is no guarantee Congress will extend it. Expansion will halt, some warn, if lawmakers don't take action this summer. "We don't want lines to just be standing out there," Sweetwater Mayor Greg Wortham said of the planned transmission lines. Wortham is also director of the West Texas Energy Consortium. Until a turbine is producing juice -- no credit.
July 19, 2008 by Trish Choate in Abilene Reporter News
Expansion may halt unless Congress extends program into 2009, some say
A federal clock is ticking on an ambitious Texas Public Utility Commission plan to build transmission lines to funnel wind energy from West Texas to metropolitan areas.
The wind energy industry revolves around a production tax credit that expires Dec. 31. After more than one false start, there is no guarantee Congress will extend it.
Expansion will halt, some warn, if lawmakers don't take action this summer.
"We don't want lines to just be standing out there," Sweetwater Mayor Greg Wortham said of the planned transmission lines. Wortham is also director of the West Texas Energy Consortium.
Until a turbine is producing juice -- no credit.
A wind facility with utility-scale turbines rates a production tax credit of 2 cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity produced
I looked over what the news has about this so far and I have to wonder if you're really thinking about the words they're using?
As I understand it, a tax credit is where you pay them the taxes first, then you get a refund...maybe. In the meantime, they get to use the money. When they're done with it, if any's left, you get it back. The states, especially Texas, know all about *that* promise!
A tax break is an actual reduction in up front tax rate. They reduce what you pay up front. You get to keep your own money.
See that wee, little, innocent word there that describes how the utilities will switch to renewables? "Require" Who will be paying for that, one wonders? What is the "or else?"
Notice who gets what. The alterg folks get the credits. (That's us.) The oil people lose the breaks. The people who can figure out how to convincingly call their product "green" get the breaks. We're not even getting an even break on the oil. The strategic reserve holds about 30 days of oil and is symbolic only. They're generously allowing us to drill where the oil isn't. And then only if the severely under-motivated state is willing to go along.
We're getting screwed, my friend.
Let me ask you a couple of questions. Who is going to pay back that $18B in breaks they want back? You think they're going to write a check?
Look...no offense, my friends, but why do you stay Democrats?
-Anthony
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