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Ryan Sumstad, CEO of IEV Corporation (www.ievcorp.com)
Alternative American Energy
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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Yes
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- IEV Capital is a commercial finance consulting firm based in The Woodlands, Texas. Many of our clients are ethanol plants, bio diesel plants, wind farms and solar farms. We are also working on a carbon credit production and market solution for the US.
Recently we launched a new site: www.energygreen.us to test the interest level in alternative energy. The response was awesome. Please feel free to take a look.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- Real Change comes from Real Leadership. Mr. Pickens has a great message that the entire country can rally around no matter what party or what agenda they might have. He's doing what he says he will do...now that is refreshing. You can read an article about his recent progress: NY Times Article. T. Boone Pickens plans to eventually build the world's largest wind power plant, with a generating capacity of 4,000 MW. The 1,000-MW first phase of that project, the Pampa Wind Project, is expected to go online by early 2011. See the Texas PUC Press Release and the April press release from ERCOT.
- What do you want to do to help?
- Let me know how we can help finance the creation of new wind farms and increase natural gas production. Please go to our website at www.ievcorp.com to leave a message or to see more information about us.
Ryan's Blog
What You Can Do About The Wall Street Crisis
Posted on September 21, 2008 at 5:19pm —
Alternative American Energy
Posted on August 24, 2008 at 1:31pm —
Pickens $10 Billion Wind Project Underway
Read the whole article here.
http://www.eere.energy.gov/news/news_detail.cfm/news_id=11772
This is AWESOME! Click the link above to learn a whole bunch about how the Pickens Plan is coming together!
Posted on July 23, 2008 at 8:00am —
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VIDEO of the very first design prototype:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmUZJYYT2n0
An article recently published:
http://www.biztimes.com/news/2009/2/6/innovations-racine-inventor-creates-a-better-windmill
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27FEB09
Honorable Speaker of the House Congresswoman Pelosi,
I am an Electronic Technician Chief in the US Navy with 27 years service stationed overseas. I’m outlying an idea to assist and work with current plans for achieving energy independence. I urge you, as speaker of the house and the driving force to form the select committee on energy independence and global warming, consider for discussion and introduction into the house US Treasury Savings Bonds for Energy Independance.
In WWII America sold war bonds supporting the war effort. When young, my mother told me her primary school raised enough money through bonds to build a tank to support troops. I am impressed with the patriotism and purpose of our greatest generation that accomplished so much.
Selling energy bonds for RE (Renewable Energy) development would lower foreign oil imports and assist with the complex problem of funding. Bonds sold as “Energy S” could support new solar trough plants, “Energy W” to support wind farms, Energy “H” to support hydroelectric plants, Energy “T” to support RE transportation such as electric bullet train routes powered by RE, Energy "C" COOPS for small communities only needing a small quantity of turbines, and Energy “I” for needed infrastructure high voltage power lines to the RE site. Bonds will have the project name and include an artist’s perspective of the project and an American flag. President Obama had great success with the internet during his campaign. In a similar manner, using the internet, energy bonds could have a website listing current projects and an “electronic checkout” could purchase a bond $25 or higher. Simpler methods of payment such as “PAYPAL” and credit cards would be available and after an electronic purchase is complete a color print out of the bond is available with a follow up of the bond in the mail. The website would limit quantity of projects for each category until funding is complete. After a project becomes funded, a new project will be available. A tab on the site will show history and status of previous projects. Purchasers may take great pride in “collecting” and displaying bonds of various RE projects and participating at different levels of financial support. Solar trough plants in the multi-hundred MW size capacity with molten salt energy storage in California, Arizona, and West Texas can provide a major portion of electric needs. North Dakota has potential to support 1/3 of our nations electric needs in it’s class 4 wind zone areas. There are plenty of suitable proposed wind turbine farms now around the nation to significantly increase our RE if funded. Mid sized hydro-electric has not been used in America to it’s full potential. Following the example of our neighbor, Canada, it would provide a significant increase in percentage of electric production. Developing all three we could provide the majority of our electric and heating needs through renewable energy in a "New New Deal" fashion allowing natural gas for transportation as T. Boone Pickens is working for. Bullet train routes have proven a viable alternative to commercial domestic air service and when powered by electricity provided by RE suppliers America would be in the forefront of world technology. Example, I heard of discussion for a commuter train from Denver to Colorado Springs. Such a route built as a renewable energy project with charter requirement legally requiring to only purchase electricity from available renewable energy sources would be a model example. There are many train routes, city bus systems, and government vehicles that can be converted to run from alternative energy sources and fuels. Jobs created would bolster the economy, lower trade deficit, and strengthen national security. I would take great pride in print outs of bonds with graphics of each project I supported and many other Americans would also. The energy bonds could have tax breaks. BLM lands may be a viable place to start for some projects.
I contacted the US treasury department and was told that the marketing department for savings bonds closed several years ago. I was told there would be problems because savings bonds are at the federal level while the projects will be at the state and local level. I disagree and believe that these can easily be figured out in the way of grants to the state and local level using money from the bonds for those specific projects. I was told to check out auctions on the www.treasurydirect.gov website and found them to not apply to citizens wanting to buy savings bonds to support a cause such as energy independance. I was told by the treasury department to look into CREB (Clean Renewable Energy Bonds). I found CREB to be large scale funding that a citizen would not be able to participate in as a US Treasury Energy Independance Bond would provide. If given the tools to participate directly, the power of the citizens of the United States to help achieve energy independance could not be denied. Americans mean well and the Energy Independance Savings bond program will give citizens the power at their level to make it happen. If marketed through a web page, commercials, and to federal employees the word would get out and participation would spread like wildfire.
Mr. Paul Gipe, a resident of Bakersfield CA, an author of several books about wind energy, and recipient of multiple awards as a pioneer in the industry since the 1970's has put a letter I wrote to Senator Dorgan on this subject as well as an older letter I wrote on wind COOP in JAN07. These websites are:
http://www.wind-works.org/coopwind/RenewableEnergyBondsforEnergyIndependence.html
and
http://www.wind-works.org/articles/AmericanEnergyIndependencethroughCooperativeInvestmentinWindEnergy.html
Sincerely and very respectfully,
ETC(SW/AW) Mike Kendall USN
Mailing address: PSC 476, Box 879, FPO AP, 96322 USA
Telephone (803) 265-4756, Email: ke6cvh@yahoo.com
Happy New Year Ryan,
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 Ryan, 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.
From a fellow member of the alternative energy industry, I am glad to have you in the Plan. The Plan has been reorganizing by congressional district. I am in TX-26 in DFW. I invite you to join our district if you have not attached to another local district. We have found it easier to organize when we can meet in person. We have started local meeting.
Regards, Joey Horn
It looks as though IEV is working on one of Placer Mining Corp Projects. My brother owns Placer Mining Corp. Wishing success to all parties involved this Thanksgiving holiday!
God bless.
Alizabeth
I plan to push pickensplan to my friends and family. I plan to get my community more informed about what Mr. T. Boone Pickens has planned to do.
Kelci
I would like to invite you to consider sponsorship of "Paradigm Shift Institute". We are a proposed nonprofit laboratory in Houston, Texas dedicated to education, innovation, inspiration, and solving national and global problems. One of our major focuses will be alternative energy, power, and propulsion initiatives.
We are in the process of applying for 501C status and hope to have it in a few months. We need people like you who may be able to sponsor the project or help us attain sponsors. The executive summary is at the group and I can send you a business plan on request.
Here is a chance to help make the future by creating the next generation of innovations and innovators.
We have petitions! "THE PLEDGE" is on the main page.
I think this is the very best tool we could ask for. It is so much easier to get someone to sign a petition than to go online and join the plan as a member.
I have been test driving it for a few days and got 200 signatures rather eaasily. Most folks had seen the ads or seen Boone on the news. Most were eager to sign it and strongly support it. A few wanted to get more info- I handed them a business card with the website. Very few said no (2 or 3).
I hope you can ask all your "friends" to download a bunch of PLEDGES and fax them back to the office ASAP. THIS IS HOW WE BUILD AN ARMY much faster. Millions of signatures.
Thank you for all your efforts. We have a very strong team. Many ants can take the Hill!
Best
Kim
Texans unite!
Mike Cutler
Cutler Real Estate Services
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