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Bill Higgins - USNA '81 - Maine 1st Congressional District Co-Leader - Maine ENERGY PARTY Leader
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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Yes
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- I have extensive Nuclear Power experience. I went to the US Naval Acdemy and majored in Marine Engineering. It was a combination of Mechanical, Nuclear and ship building. I went through the nuclear training, and then served as a division officer on USS Boston (SSN 703). I then worked for Combustion Engineering Nuclear services for 8 years. I am currently the President of Perrformance Centered Engineering, Inc. We are setting up a non-profit subsidiary for Community Outreach. One aspect of our outreach will deal with energy conservation. We will perform home inspections and generate recommendatiions to save energy. We will then bring in contractors that we have made partnership agreements with to complete the inprovements, along with partner lending institutions. Our goal is to save ten percent on a gallon by gallon basis for the residents. We also hope to create partnerships with suppliers (insulation, hardware, new furnaces, etc... ). A second aspect will be to increase public transportation capabilities. The METRO system has 12 busses that run on natural gas. That fleet needs to expanded, and we need to add METRO service to Cape Elizabeth. We also need to establish a ZOOM system to the Sebago Lake Region, to Wiscasset via Brunswick and Bath, and to extend the current Biddeford Zoom farther south. It would allow more people to get to work in Portland via public instead of in their own cars. I see about 95 percent of cars coming into Portland with only the driver.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- Your goals match ours... if we work together we can make a difference for our country, and the world.
- What do you want to do to help?
- Share information through naval academy alumni and the media... I will be sending information to about 1000 shareholders to schedule our annual meeting for August 31, 2008. I could send flyers about your plan along with that information.
FAcebook for Pickens plan
I now am part of facebook, and have picked up 250 freinds there in the past few months. Over 140 of them are graduates from my class at the naval academy, and another 40 are graduates of other classes.
FaceBook is easier to use for communications. I have friends set up in groups of 20 where I can send bulk mailings to 20 at a time. It is great wehn a new calssmate comes on to facebook, and I help them find 140 new freinds. It is also great for business networking and causes. We can creat Pickens Plan couses there, and help to spread the word around the world.
Bill
William Higgins
Portland, Maine Network
WHiggins@pcei.biz
Performance Centered Engineering, Inc. (PCE)
President and Chairman
Lieutenant Commander
U S Naval Reserves (Retired)
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This sounds good to me, Youer Office in Portland, You and Jeff are our Leaders so come up with a date Friday Nights would be good for me. I have Grand kids on the weekends.
Mike
I have a suggestion
We need a starting point,and Im hosting an event in May as you Probably know by now Harlem Superstars in Saco, Prior to the event I would like for us to have a meeting to go over a plan I have to promote PP.
So What say you are we together on this.?
Please let me know :O}
Thanks
Mike
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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
Sincerely,
Andrew
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