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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Yes
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- Much research into solar wood-drying kiln, ethanol still for auto, electric auto, solar panels for electricity, solar hot water heating. Designing an electric auto for commuting which I plan to build.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- Mr. Pickens is right! His plan makes sense. It is obvious that the private sector will have to solve this crisis since Washington is doing virtually nothing.
- What do you want to do to help?
- Spread the word. Search for alternatives. Get people to become aware and hopefully, active in being a part of the solution. Use the Internet and technology to further the goal of energy self-sufficiency.
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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
I think the CNG buses are a great idea. I wish I had better contacts in Dallas, but I don't.
Some info that may be helpful in selling your idea would be what the City Of Denton has been doing in being green over the past 3-5 years. You most likely already know most of this, but here are a couple links to webpages about: bio-diesel buses Denton has been using(not great new news, but an example) and the new Ethanol plant in Denton.
http://www.biodieselinvesting.com/biodiesel-archives/2008/11/13/biodiesel-industries-sued-by-city-of-denton/
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa071018_lj_ethanol.18193f4ff.html
Thanks, Jimmy TX-26
Welcome to TX-26. We are a pretty active group and look forward to working with you on the Pickens Plan. Please let Teresa, Roxanne or I know if you have any questions, if you need any resources support and how you'd like to help.
To keep up with what's going on in District TX-26, just log onto the TX-26 webpage periodically. Teresa and I leave comments fairly regularly on events and resource help there. Also, if you are getting to many emails from TX-26, you can hit ‘stop following’ link towards the top-right of the TX26 page. You will still get the important emails from Teresa and I, but will not get all the smaller TX-26 page updates.
Please visit TX-26 below for info on:
- Op/Ed Newspaper Articles
- Call Campaign Info and Updates
- Discussion Topics and Resources
- Next TX-26 Meeting Updates
Thanks and we look forward to working with you,
Jimmy Horn, TX-26 Co-Lead
Roxanne Brewer
DL TX-26
How are you today? I hope well.
TX-26 is having our 2nd meeting in Lewisville tomorrow(Tuesday at 7pm). We would like for you to come if you can make it. We're expecting around 10-20 people. For more details about the meeting, you can go to this
TX-26 Meeting Link.
Also, to keep up with what's going on in our area, please join the TX-26 group by going to this TX-26 Group Link and then towards the top-right of the page, you will see 'Join TX-26 group'. Just click on that. Then, if you don't want to get a lot of emails from the group(I send out one every other day or so right now), hit the 'Stop Following' text a little below the join group text. If you do decide not to follow, I would recommend you to log into the group periodically to check for updates.
Thanks and hope to see you tomorrow.
Jimmy Horn
TX-26 Co-Lead
Happy New Year Martin,
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 Martin, 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.
Hello, my name is Jimmy Horn and I am part of the TX-26 group. We have a small but growing group organizing out of ‘Congressional District TX-26’, which includes Denton County, some parts of Lewisville, Flower Mound and that area.
We would be interested in you joining ‘Pickens Plan District Group TX-26’ and help support us in organizing our efforts in the Denton/Lewisville area. We do not require any time, work or money unless you decide you’d like to help with the effort, and then that is up to you on how much or little you’d like to do.
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments for me about TX-26 or anything else. We look forward to getting to know you and exchanging ideas with you.
Our second meeting is Jan 6th, if you’d like to meet some of the members and get a better feel of the group.
Thanks,
Jimmy Horn
Co-Lead TX-26
Please take a look at the executive summary on my page. We are in the process of establishing a nonprofit innovation laboratory in Houston Texas dedicated to inspiring young people to pursue technology careers and to the development of the next-generation of strategic technologies to meet our current global challenges. Alternative energy is a major focus of our program.
Right now, we are in need of people willing to sponsor our efforts or to finding sponsorship for us.
We believe this can be the beginning of an effort that can spread to other areas of the country and create a critical mass of new technology ideas and innovative technologists to meet the challenges.
Any assistance you could provide would be appreciated.
Best Regards,
Norman
TRANSPORTATION is the master key to basic survival, and the cornerstone of the economy. We all know that transportation presently depends on oil production, and oil production is peaking. We must focus first on transportation – it is the highest priority. The PickensPlan to transition vehicles to natural gas is a great start toward 100% energy independence, but is a stop-gap measure till we can transition to all electric transportation. Electric energy is strained without adding transportation demands; so we must drastically improve efficiency .
Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) is a patented technology where travel occurs without air friction or rolling resistance (like “Space Travel on Earth”); ETT can accomplish 50 times more transportation per kWh (or carbon credit) than electric cars or trains. ETT is silent, low cost, safe, faster than jets, and is electric so it can make maximum use of wind or PV power. I invite you to visit my page to learn more about ETT