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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Yes
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- Wade Wilson
President/CEO
Legacy Energy Group, LLC (LegacyEG)
www.legacyeg.com
I gained renewable energy experience long before renewable energy became a household term by co-developing and constructing a 390,000 gallon per year fuel ethanol plant in 1980-1982. I have over 25 years experience as an agriculture consultant including crop production, harvest, transportation, storage, and processing. I have worked extensively in the states of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona and Kansas. My experience has proven very useful in promoting agriculture and forest waste biomass projects as well as working with landowners, rural businesses and communities on wind projects. I have worked two years in the Wind and Biomass industries and gained valuable experience that can be used supporting the Pickens Plan.
LegacyEG focuses on Wind and Biomass Power as well as Power Storage. These type projects support local economies with good-paying jobs; landowner fees; and, taxes paid to schools, towns, counties and in many other ways. The need for alternative energy has never been stronger, and we believe a cleaner, more self-reliant future for America can be found in renewable energy and alternative fuels.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- There are many public and private organizations talking about renewable energy, but there a very few if any others that have recognized both the need for clean energy as well as a need to lower our dependence on foreign energy and put fourth a plan to accomplish both. T Boone Pickens has recognized this need as well as the potential to help energize our economy by accomplishing the goal of "Energy Independence". The Pickens Plan is also unique in that it allows individuals and organizations from all walks of life to participate in any way they can. I am excited to join the Pickens Army and I am excited about the opportunity LegacyEG has to help make a better future for generations to come.
- What do you want to do to help?
- LegacyEG is fortunate to be able to offer community organizations the opportunity to own a significant portion of a community wind project without the large financial risks normally associated with this ownership. Example Organizations: Cities, Counties, Economic Development, Not-For-Profit, Schools or most organizations that benefit a large segment of the community.
Community organizations may participate in up to 20% ownership with no capital expenditures and they have the OPTION to increase participation by an additional 10% with very little capital outlay. This program helps promote energy independence as well as providing good paying green jobs within the community and provides long term income that stays in the community.
Please feel free to contact us for more information on our Community Wind Program, and stay tuned for more info as we proceed.
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What I mean is interconnection of gas fired turbines vs. wind turbines.
Is your area in the Southwest Power Pool?
Steve
What do you think of Boone's slowing down his wind project in North Texas and his activities in the wind space? He said that wind energy development is
tied to the margin in natural gas. Isn't that a conflict of interest for him?
Steve Eveans
Steve
You really have no idea what a breath of fresh air it is to monitor this web site. I have tried to get the pinheads around here to read The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler but they simply will not listen. Its almost a cultural phenomenon. Coal is so deeply embedded within this region there is simply no way for these people to have open mnds.
Last summer, I spent two weeks on LST 325 on a trip up the MIssissippi River. I picked the trip up Labor Day weekend in Hannibal, MO and proceeded up to Clinton, and Fort Madison, IA.
It was so refreshing to see the wind farms up in central Illinois and the wind turbine blades steaming up river in an enormous barge. I later learned from a barge operators trade magazine that the outfit operates out of Texas and ships those things up here from (of all places) Brazil!
Are you in the least bit familar with the Lignite operations of Texas Utilities over in the Eastern part of the state? I met a guy from over there several years ago at a seminar on coal ash at Southern Illinois University and he was telling me all about what they were doing with the Whooping Cranes down in the nesting areas around the the Gulf Coast.
Believe it or not, I also know Diane Wilson! The weekend I met her she was on a hunger strike and was attending yet another little con fab over at a small private college in Louisville! I tell you, someday I ought to write a book!
David Coker
I will connect with you on your website to learn more about how your program can benefit landowners.
Kindest Regards
Mary Putnam
This is Karl Mayr over at Tularosa, New Mexico, and with some spare time with "retiremnet", I am getting a passion to promote Pickens Plan.
More Later,
Karl Mayr
Windrow Energies, LLC is providing renewable energy solutions with and for Communities in Nebraska. WE are looking for JV Partners in the Great Plains
Please visit our web site. www.windrowenergies.com I think we have a lot in
common related to our Community Based Energy Developments.
Steve Eveans, Manager and Founder
The process consists of a “syn-gas” producing front-end with a Fischer-Tropsch back-end. Syn-gas is produced using a multi-stage steam reformer (gasifier) with a “cold gas” efficiency of 81%. The number of stages and operating conditions are dependent upon the end-use of the gas. The second stage is a fairly straightforward Fischer-Tropsch synthesis loop, using a proprietary catalyst developed by Pearson Technologies, Inc. (PTI). Single-pass conversion to ethanol is from 15% to 60% with a total conversion of 99+% with recycle.
The gasifier has converted a wide range of feedstock to synthetic gas (“syngas”) including wood waste (whole tree), bagasse, rice hulls, animal manure, lignite and creosote at our pilot plant in AL. The catalysts are patented. The syn-gas is produced at a cost of approximately $ 1.20 per million BTU’s (mm BTU’s), at a concentration by volume of approximately 50% that of natural gas. Further, the process produces no emissions, as there is no oxidation. The omission of oxygen from the process also results in a very low capital cost for the manufacturing facilities. The syn-gas can be used either for electricity generation (by driving a gas turbine) or for commercial production of alcohols and other chemicals.
The Pearson process’ low cost of producing syn-gas and absence of greenhouse gas emissions, coupled with the urgent economic need for biomass-driven energy (“green energy) suggests that a primary use of the process should be to fuel power plants in areas where biomass is plentiful. However, the need for fuel ethanol to replace MTBE is becoming a priority for a growing number of jurisdictions. The flexibility of the Pearson process in using a wide variety of feed stocks enables the thermo-chemical production of fuel ethanol while simultaneously solving the problem of incineration of biomass wastes. We must achieve a balanced, but rapid rollout of both uses, and have developed a “Pro-generation” model that generates the production of electrical power and ethanol from local biomass. It is also a useful feature of the Pearson process that Fischer-Tropsch facilities made idle by the high cost of natural gas can be converted to ethanol production with the increase in supply necessary for continued observance of clean air regulations following a U.S.-wide ban on MTBE. The technology is licensed to ensure that the maximum benefit is conveyed to the economy and the global environment.
We can become an effective "technical partner" with interested investors, investment goups, cities, counties, and state agencies wanting to convert industrial facilites to both electrical power and ethanol from local biomass.
Contact George Johnson, President, GT Energy, LLC at GTEnergyllc.net or 817-296-4710
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