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Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?

Maybe--But Not Sure What to Organize

Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:

Mostly conservation, recycling, composting, using LOCAL
materials & growing LOCAL food (reduces transportation cost).

What excites you about this campaign?

Makes sense

What do you want to do to help?

Put wind tower on some of my acres!!!
Be able to replace conventional heating/cooling/hot water
with geothermal.

At 8:21am on October 18, 2008, Home Wind Turbine said…: .
Hello lorraine, These new rooftop mount home wind turbine kits that I am building are great. The profile is pretty sleek and attractive. The system is actually a home appliance and doesn't really stand out much more than an antennae, chimney, or satellite dish. This makes a nice clean way for homeowners to get into the clean energy movement. The systems are inexpensive, easy to install and scaleable.

These systems have wind/solar built right in. The wind is stronger in the winter months, sun is stronger in the summer months, we designed a system that is attractively priced, that gives an even flow of energy year round. Wind power scales down in size to be perfectly feasible for a homeowner sized system to provide power for their home. Many customers have found it easy to become wind turbine customer/dealers. They are able to do this with no further investment and they see how easy people are to get interested.

I have used them to save money on my electricity costs and lorraine, you could too. The systems pay for themselves in 5 to 10 years depending on your local wind resources, and they last for 25 or 30 years before needing a rebuild. Have a look at these windmaps and see can you pinpoint what number your area is in. 2 is OK and anything over 2 is very good. Let's double check your wind resources are good.

Your United States Wind Resource Maps

Small Wind/Solar Systems

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At 6:15am on September 8, 2008, Eric Lykins said…: Thank you for joining Pickens Plan.
I live in Knoxville, and when I signed up to PickensPlan, I looked for groups in Tennessee. There were groups centered in Nashville and Memphis, but not Knoxville, and the activity and leadership in our state in general was kind of weak. I began the group East Tennessee for Sustainable Infrastructure and I would appreciate any input. You can find it here
Thank you very much,
Eric Lykins, Pickens Plan Campaign Ambassador

At 11:55am on July 11, 2008, Roy H Taylor said…: Geothermal is not cost competitive with conventional heat pumps. If you spend additional money on sealing and insulating your house before you install a high efficiency heat pump system you will acheive the same result.