October 2010 Blog Posts (38)

Richmond Times Dispatch

10/13/10



Natural gas is one of the most abundant natural resources in America. Until recently, it was generally assumed that our supply was limited to “conventional” natural gas, which is extracted from geologic formations associated with petroleum deposits, and “coalbed methane,” which occurs in conjunction with coal deposits.



Those are the two types of natural gas found in Virginia. Over the past decade, new developments in drilling…

Dr. Hans Kugler, PhD, write-in for US Senate (California).

Signed "Contract for America."

Are you a member of the disgusted majority, distressed about…

http://www.1lite.com

The partners of have been serving the lighting needs of businesses, both large and small, for over 3 decades.…

Crucial Senate vote looms after the elections.

Oklahoman

10/7/10

By Chris Casteel



WASHINGTON — T. Boone Pickens said Wednesday he is still optimistic Congress will pass a bill this year to boost production of heavy duty trucks that run on natural gas, and that he won't give up if the legislation fails in a postelection session.



"I'm not going to quit," Pickens told reporters at a hotel near the White House. "I'll try as hard as I can this year, and…

Boone appeared on the debut show of energyNOW!, which airs on the ABC affiliate in Washington D.C. His interview discussing America’s dependence on foreign oil can be viewed here:

http://www.energynow.com/video/2010/10/02/americas-oil-dependence.

By Marjorie Arons-Barron



T. Boone Pickens has made nearly $1.5 billion as an oil man, financier, corporate raider, takeover artist, and hedge fund chairman. He’s been working since he was 12 years old, when he started delivering newspapers, and, at age 82, is a larger-than-life character who has spent, he says, $70 million of his own money to advance a plan to eliminate American dependence on foreign oil.



Meeting with editorialists and editorial page editors recently in…

Hartford Courant

10/5/10



By Robyn Blumner



Author Tom Wolfe said that a liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. In the case of the political evolution of Texas oil and finance magnate T. Boone Pickens, a liberal on energy policy is a conservative who has crunched the numbers. Pickens has done the math on America's energy future and it doesn't work. Oil dependency is America's ticking time bomb. He says we need to think about wind, solar, nuclear, "anything…

NIF blasts tiny pellets of deuterium-tritium fuel with a single 500-trillion-Watt laser beam. This is a big number; about 1,000 times the power consumption of the United States. This gargantuan sort-lived laser pulse causes the fuel pellet to collapse and detonate,…