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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Yes
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- Spent part of my college career working on alternative combustion techniques. Won the Wall Street Journal's Innovation of the Year Award for Software, besting IBM. Won the Florida Governor's New Product Award. Florida DOT, at the behest of the FHWA made the technology I created one of its 5 strategic objectives for adoption in 2004. Won the Construction Innovation Forum's NOVA Award for Innovation. My work has caused changes in Florida's Statute 556, State One Call Laws. I have modeled, in software, a rail transportation system based upon a novel access/egress technique that proved off the shelf electric rail systems configured right could be built that fills the transportation gap between auto and air travel nationally. This system also installed primary backbone natural gas lines in the same right of way to allow existing service stations easy access to the natural gas grid to facilitiate easily shifting people's cars to natural gas. I am very familar with the use of natural gas for automobiles.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- The PickensPlan and my work in a national electric rail system fit perfectly together. I have been trying to get Gov Sonny Purdue's attention on it instead of reviving an old rail concept that died 40 years ago. Establising a national rail system that is powered by electricity that is constructed on existing Interstate rights of way, that has an average velocity of 80 - 100 MPH with access points every 30 miles or less changes things a lot in terms of dependence on foreign oil.
The Picken's Plan creates a lot of electricity. I plan to need a lot more as we shift a lot of the public transportation's energy requirements to the electric grid. The Picken's Plan shifts energy creation to abundant American resources. My plan aplies that results of that shift in an innovative and efficient way.
- What do you want to do to help?
- Integrate a very innovative electric rail system into the PickensPlan.
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Just wanted to take a second of your time to invite you to view the solar solution equivalent of the PickensPlan.
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Thanks, I am a general contractor that is developing a class of homes called "All things Green". If you are interested in my last project i founded, look at www.wittentech.com and see the world's most sophisticated and commercially viable geophysical photogrammetric camera. When the White House had to look under its grounds, out of all the people in the world to choose from, they picked me. That project is finished and I am moving on and seeing what I can do to help the Picken's plan.
I won the Wall Street Journal's Innovation of the Year Award for Software in 2004. It was considered the 5th most innovative development in the world back then. I have some more software that I had written on a rail system that proved one can accomplish the goals of high speed rail on interstate corridors without the cost. It is all electric. If you are ever interested in it, let me know. It modeled the 1900 patent of Robert Fish and yielded amazing results.
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Robert
I found the Goswami graph on the Net. I'll work with it to get it "focused," and then repost it to my PickensPlan page for you to download.
Regards,
Doug
“We are the Standard for all Building Structures of the Future”
http://www.solarhousing.us 888.448.9188
Why all the media Hype over Alternative Renewable Energy?
The hoopla and the hype about the Alternative Energy Industry are due to several factors that can be summed up very simply.
Obviously the new cost of the old standard; OIL.
We as Americans never do anything until made to. IE: Voting.
Because of the Dynamic shift from a production society, post WWII in the US to a service or market Economy by the end of the 90’s.
Was one of a cause and effect, if you will…?
The 90’s was the internet boom….
The 2000 to 2006 the Real Estate boom….
Now we have Real Recession and Inflation, the economy going two different directions at the same time…Stagflation.
So it is quite evident the next boom to get America back on tract is the
Alternative Energy boom.
It’s what makes America Great.
It is these bubbles, or as Greenspan well stated it the “Frothiness” that becomes
THE AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE RENEWABLE SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY.
We will rebound and this Alternative Energy Industry will make it so.
God Bless America…….
I have an agenda.....
My life's goal is to have all residential property co-generating electricity in North America by 2025. Little know fact it's only 25% of entire North American Grid Consumption.
This is attainable we have the technology and the man-power.....
We must start now!!!!
Time for talk is over.....
I have introduced the Boldest Solar/Housing Initiative ever put forth...
Entire subdivisions of low-cost Modulars with little to no electric bill that retail from $79,900 to $149,900 680sq 2/1 to 1380sq 3/2
Meets the need for low-cost housing and helps over Stressed Grid during PEAK_USAGE hrs as entire subdivisions come on-line becoming virtual mini-generating stations.
As well as helps the environment…
win-win-win.
It is the short term solution to a long term problem.......
Now that I have come home to south Georgia....
it is time to enlist All the help with this I can get.
I need more R & D with my new patent Idea an will be asking for Ga Tech's help.....with the SOLAR POWERED RECIRCULATOR GENERATOR which will drive the cost of production down by almost 60%
and will also be going back to Washington DC in this election year to demand more from our "so called elected or soon-to-be-elected officials".
I am in negotiations with Roger Little of Spire Solar in Mass to build a 100mw manufacturing plant in Liberty County Ga.
My plan is simple mix Roger's little assembly line with RapidModular.com's walling panels to produce under one roof the
structures of the future.
JD Polk, founder & ceo
Advanced Technology Industries Inc.
"We are the Standard for all building Structures of the Future"
Building Sustainable Renewable Communities
of Tomorrow...
By building our own PV and being the only PV plant in the entire southeast US. We will capture this market in FL, GA, AL, and SC, NC. Simply by cutting down on the cost of shipping we will be the viable option for all of the Solar Retailers in the Region.
MANGEMENT TEAM
JD Polk, founder & ceo
Alternative Resource Electric Corporation, inc.
Mr. Polk has been working to keep hope alive in the Alternative Resource Electrical generation arena for over 17yrs. In the early 90's as ceo of Solar Cell's Inc living in Boca Raton touting Solar, Wind & Tidal-Flow generation on one platform offshore. He and the then Governor of Florida Lawton Chiles co-authored the co-generation legislation. That Florida and 23 other states immediately adopted.
He was there in DC in '98 when President Clinton signed the Million Roofs Initiative.
In 1999 he formed a Georgia corporation Alternative Resource Electric Corporation Inc just in time for what was sure to be Al Gore as President to then start implementing the Energy initiative's the Clinton Administration had put forth.
Well we all know what happened….
So for the last 7yrs Mr. Polk became a Real Estate guru mentoring others waiting for the end of the present Administration.
George Quintero President and Director of Operations.
George has been President and founder of Rapid Modular, inc for over 12yrs. And has been Building Superior structures for over 32years. His building experience in the Prefabricated Building Industry, is exemplary and he has built over 20,000 Homes and Buildings. His original Buildings, built and assembled over 32 years ago, are still in use today. The majority of the residential homes, low cost housing, office and commercial buildings, industrial buildings, military installations, schools, and hospitals have been exported to South and Central America and the Caribbean.
www.Rapidmolular.com
Irv Weinberg, International Director of Marketing
Is co-founder of Mind Over Markets, a marketing/business development company in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He brings with him more than 30 years of senior-level advertising and marketing experience. He has worked for some of the world’s top advertising agencies including Young & Rubicam; Wells, Rich and Greene; LINTAS and Grey Advertising in New York City. Irv has been responsible for heading up the advertising and marketing efforts of Fortune 500 companies and well as non-profit organizations and small to medium-sized businesses nationwide.
www.mindovermarkets.com
A new market?
Our timing appears fortuitous.
Solarbuzz llc. Says “revenue for the global solar technology industry reached $10.6 billion in 2006, while capital investment through solar photovoltaic-technology business hit $2.8 billion”, the annual World Solar Photovoltaic Industry Report. In addition, the industry raised more than $4 billion in equity and debt financing, up from $1.8 billion a year earlier. Solarbuzz also predicts the industry could expect revenue to reach between $18.6 billion and $31.5 billion by 2011.
In addition, the company is in best effort negotiations with Washington, D.C.-based law firm Chadbourne & Parke LLP to study the feasibility of securing state and federal incentives on a project-by-project basis.
The solar industry is booming, boasting growth of more than 40 percent each year and some $30 billion in sales last year, according to Photon International
Clean energy investment soars
July 3, 2008 11:21 am EDT Filed in Investing
Investment in sustainable energy worldwide is posting big growth, with $148.4 billion going to the sector in 2007, according to a new United Nations report.
That was an increase of 60 percent over the previous year, and the dollars climb when all financial transactions including acquisitions are included. That number is $204.9 billion.
The majority of the money going to sustainable energy came in the form of investments geared at adding capacity for renewable energy — a 67 percent surge to $84.5 billion last year. Public market investment in sustainable energy more than doubled, to $23.4 billion from $10.5 billion in 2006. Early stage venture investments grew 112 percent to $2 billion.
The primary funding source will be a Private Placement Memorandum with Subscription Agreement.
Stock will be sold in units
One unit is = to 2000 shares
The cost is $25US per share
So the unit cost is $50kUS
This will be in the form of $25kUS interest only cash loan at 6% simple interest
With a promissory note of $1000US per month for 25 months. Certificate will be issued immediately and transferred at 25th month. This will coincide with Direct Public Offering.
The 6% interest is paid semi-annually to stockholders.
The 25kUS cash will stay in escrow until the day we go public then there will be the pay-out back to stockholders.
The $1000US per month will be used for operating capitol.
The Capitol Expenditures to build out manufacturing Plants, PV and Modular will come from DOE State and Locale Municipalities Grants and initiatives the bulk will be Bridge Loans/holding preferred stock with warrants.
From unnamed Investment Banking Firm
Contenders are: Credit Swiss, World Bank with Asian Development Bank (India and China), Fidelity, and Franklin Templeton.
For more information call, e-mail or write to:
JD Polk, founder & ceo
Alternative Resource Electric Corp inc
(solar, wind & hydrokinetic generation one platform offshore)
Po box 747
Walthourville, Ga. 31333
904.525. POLK 7655
888.448.9188
904.434.6969 cell
solarmanjd@dcemail.com
www.solarhousing.us
I’ve been interested in trains for a long time, actually ever since my dad took us 3 little brothers, me the middle-monster, over to the tracks and we’d put pennies on the rails for the trains to flatten. Our home was only a couple blocks from the NYC’s 4-track main line (only three now), just south of Elkhart, Indiana. Not only that. I don’t think a kid has had a good upbringing unless he’s spent some time in a big old roundhouse, as I often did with Dad, to see, hear, smell, feel steam locomotives being spun round. Not only that, but back then in the mid-century Elkhart got the then biggest and highest-tech switch yard, with the hump-system.
Anyway, I was the one son who followed in Dad’s footsteps as a second mechanical geek in the family, and I guess that helped propel me through Purdue, taking from there a BSME in ’71. While a student there, I had a project where I designed, built, and structurally tested a scale model of a locomotive chassis/structure, entered the project in a Lincoln Welder design contest and won a $100 prize – can’t remember where it placed, maybe 4th or 5th, but I do remember that kind of money was a pretty big deal back then for a kid living off his parent’s bare thin savings account.
Now, here’s what really got to me when I read your Profile, “I have modeled, in software, a rail transportation system based upon a novel access/egress technique…,” and “Establishing a national rail system that is powered by electricity that is constructed on existing Interstate rights of way.” The aforementioned, scaled-down chassis was only part of a team project. Our team came up with (on paper, but at the time we thought it could be reduced to an analog computer program – sweet huh) a system consisting of main lines and siding-systems at the terminals that would handle the off-coming and on-coming cars, leaving the main train on the line. At the time, and of course being on a campus where major steam and Diesel research had been accomplished, we were thinking Diesel-electric locomotion. So, when the train approached a terminal where cars were to be delivered and/or picked up, the train would separate, or open up slots, for the cars being changed out and in. Of course, while in the terminal control zone, the train and cars would need to be powered electrically, since the train would be separated from the Engine. So, each car and the locomotive would need to carry electromotive equipment; the locomotive would need to be in the control-system of the electrified zone, of course.
Lately, especially since my wife and I still live near Detroit and our Daughter’s family lives in Atlanta, I have been thinking about a (yours, as it seems to turn out) system running right up and down I-75’s ROW … that sure could have helped us get down there, or them up here, for all those visits (between us 6 to 8 trips a year since 2000), and there probably would have been a lot more if we could get on a vehicle that averaged about 100 mph – about 8 instead of 13 hours each way. That may not seem like a lot of difference to some folks, but to us non-fliers it’s a ton. And, let’s not even mention the gas prices we will face until we retire and move to GA.
Mainly while in the car auguring up and down the “superslab of the Midwest,” I have dreamed up some pretty spectacular –in my mind of course- structures and vehicles that would make up such a system.
Anyway, well, I say all that to say this. Would you be interested in some practical noodling together on this topic, within our Pickens Plan platform?