All Blog Posts Tagged 'pickens' (68)

Billboard Promoting the Pickens Plan and Natural Gas Fueling Stations

A local business owner in NEPA - Mr. Genetti, owner of Genetti Hotel & Convention Center, has sponsored six billboards in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties promoting natural gas vehicles to reduce dependency on foreign oil.

Quote from News Article

"He is a fan of billionaire oil magnate T. Boone Pickens, who is pushing for expanding the use of natural gas-powered vehicles to reduce oil imports. "T. Boone Pickens promoted this idea and it makes sense to me. It should…

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Added by Brian Oram on September 19, 2010 at 8:37pm — No Comments

Climate Change.................Believe it or not!

Gary, the door swings both ways! You are free to leave through it just as you were free to enter and participate. Your choice. But let me ask you this, if we ignore the term "climate change" and just follow the Pickens Plan into the future would you be ok with that?

I personally am still surprised that there are so many of you out there that believe what is happening is just a natural phenomenon like the last ice age for example. Does it seem plausible to you that all the polutants pumped… Continue

Added by allen bauman on March 19, 2010 at 6:54pm — No Comments

New Natural Gas powered Fuel Cell To Change The World?

Watch CBS News Videos Online

Al Gore and Colin Powell are partners in the company that funded this startup. I wrote about it in…

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Added by mike on February 21, 2010 at 11:00pm — No Comments

The First Billion is the Toughest.. Has the time arrived to "do" versus "say"?

I am very intrigued about the book that I have been reading the last several days. "The First Billion is the Toughest". As a teacher in the high school I have shown the movie "Crude Awakening" and completely surprised the students with the information. I have even had some parents contact me to say perhaps that I am scaring their children regarding oil and the lack of it.

I very much admire what T.Boone, Mr. Pickens or Cowboy Pickens whichever name he prefers…

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Added by Patrick J. Fox on February 18, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Wall Street is listening!

I was just listening to CNBC when my attention was grabbed by a business news article they were about to do on the smart grid. I'm not an expert on the stock market but I believe this is both good and positive news for us all. It appears that an ETF(exchange traded fund) has been created to trade in companies that are in smart grid businesses. The stock symbol for the fund is GRID and it will create a basket of 29 companies that work with smart grid infrastructure, equipment and components for… Continue

Added by allen bauman on November 18, 2009 at 10:24am — No Comments

Does improving energy efficiency actually increase the carbon footprint.

This is a very thought provoking article about how increases in energy efficiency may lead to increases in energy use:

The Jevons Paradox

It is followed by some interesting commentary.

The Jevons Paradox

How Efficiency Improvements May Be Undermining Sustainability

Posted on Sep 4 by Martin Holladay

U.S. energy consumption continues to rise. In spite of continuing efficiency improvements that allow manufacturers to reduce the energy… Continue

Added by allen bauman on September 5, 2009 at 1:16am — No Comments

New Federal Grants Will Allow J.B. Hunt To Deploy 262 Liquid Natural Gas Trucks

The nation’s supply chain is getting an energy-efficient shot in the arm that will make transporting goods more cost-effective, energy efficient and environmentally friendly. A series of cost-sharing grants from the Department of Energy, totaling $300 million, should help 25 separate projects add more than 9,000 alternative fuel and energy efficient vehicles.

The grants also will help kick-start an infrastructure for refueling stations,… Continue

Added by mike on August 28, 2009 at 10:44am — 13 Comments

Underwear for Understanding

Today, I saw a fantastic article on Yahoo! Green, discussing one environmentalist groups recent campaign. The group was upset about a particular companies sale of pesticides overseas which is outlawed here in the US. The pesticides are linked to numerous health issues in humans as well as malformations in animals. However, with some clever thinking the group came up with an innovative "solution." They decided that they would all send a pair of old underwear to the companies headquarters until… Continue

Added by Tyler Baker on August 13, 2009 at 10:36pm — No Comments

Is Hydrogen the Best of the Green Fuels?

Special thanks to Mr. Mike Johnston for contributing to this article

Currently, the U.S. and most of the world is in what would be called the fossil fuel economy. The majority of our power source is from oil, natural gas, coal, and petroleum products. We need energy to keep our world and society running; however, fossil fuel energy also creates problems such as pollution, climate change and imported oil… Continue

Added by mike on July 20, 2009 at 7:33am — 1 Comment

A Stimulus Plan That Will Actually Stimulate

The $787 billion dollar stimulus plan is presently failing at what it was intended to do: stimulate the economy. As of July, 2009 only 7% of this package has been distributed out and there has been no stimulation what-so-ever. Many of those who have received their portion of the package have used the monies for other means. Several states who utilized the cash for short term needs, such as to "cushion" state budgets, make more Medicaid payments and head off other fiscal problems is just one… Continue

Added by Allen Smith on July 16, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

US DOE Clean Cities Program Sponsoring CNG Trucking Workshops

I saw the ad for a CNG trucking workshop on the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association website advertising a CNG Trucking event and did a little research. It seems that one of the key sponsors of the event is the US Department of Energy. I went to their website and found more information on the Clean Cities program as well as links to other similar workshops around the country. If you are involved in the trucking industry you may want to attend… Continue

Added by mike on July 10, 2009 at 8:33am — 1 Comment

Why The Future of Transportation Fuel Is Hydrogen

A recent television ad from Exxon/Mobil introduces the concept of an on-board fuel reformer for vehicles (view the ad here). These devices combine water and oil (or another feedstock) at elevated temperature in the presence of a catalyst to produce Hydrogen fuel for the vehicle. This sounds very complicated but it really isn’t that hard to understand. I have…

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Added by mike on July 7, 2009 at 5:08pm — 2 Comments

Oil Industry Economist Gives Her Opinion On The Pickens Plan

Diane Chu is a Chartered Economist (MBA, CPM) with extensive experience working for major corporations in the energy sector. I started talking to her on twitter after reading a story she wrote (Land Driller Sector Outlook: It's All About the Natural Gas) on the financial website "Seeking Alpha".…

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Added by mike on July 6, 2009 at 6:17am — 2 Comments

Introduction of The Natural Gas Act of 2009 (video)

I made this video of the introduction of the Natural gas Act of 2009 earlier this year and thought I would share it so people could get an idea of what it is about. This is the first of four parts, links to the other 3 parts are below. I guess it is a really basic documentary:

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We02M_nczPs

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Added by mike on June 29, 2009 at 12:33am — No Comments

1st Anniversary of the Pickens Plan Announcement

While there are certainly many activities and specific events taking place throughout the nation all year long (many now related to energy issues), perhaps we all should take a moment on July 8th to celebrate the creation of this unifying project, called the Pickens Plan by it's founder. Without this visionary's efforts, we still would be languishing in 1970's wishful thinking. So make sure that on this date you send a heartfelt thanks to Mr. Pickens for beginning this road to energy freedom,… Continue

Added by Mark Hedtke on May 27, 2009 at 10:58am — 1 Comment

Keeping The Torch Lit For Alternative Energy

Wasn't it only last year that Americans were outraged over 4$ a gallon gasoline and ready to revolt en masse in support of any kind of alternative energy or fuel which would bring back energy prices that were at least affordable if not cheap or green? Everyone wanted a voice in the choices that were being made regarding our energy future and grassroots campaigns led by T. Boone Pickens and Al Gore each had several million active members working together for a green energy… Continue

Added by mike on May 12, 2009 at 7:09pm — No Comments

Pickens Plan Bloggers Needed! Paid Positions

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Added by Booneradio.com on April 21, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Working WITH Big Oil

I really believe that the established petroleum industry represents

the only true challenge to implementing the Pickens Plan and awakening

the U.S. and World economy to a new dawn of clean renewable energy.

I think considerably more effort should be applied in this area. I see

no reason to take them on headlong. Their established facilities and

distribution channels are in place. Why reinvent the wheel? Do we

really want to put all these people in the… Continue

Added by Christopher and Daniela Rabalais on April 15, 2009 at 9:45am — 2 Comments

Very disappointing.............

It took a long time for me to allow myself the opportunity of getting my thoughts out in public instead of hiding them inside of me and a small circle of friends. But when I became aware of the PickensPlan feelings inside of me stirred up memories of when I was an idealistic youth in high school and college. So I have tried my best to blog as often as the spirit moves me. When I first joined, about 2 months ago, I noticed a definite spirit in the blogs and comments from others. But over the… Continue

Added by allen bauman on April 8, 2009 at 2:18pm — 4 Comments

Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies

Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123914805204099085.html

Ira Winkler, Former National Security Agency analyst and author of Spies Among Us -How to Take Down the Power Grid

http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=515&doc_id=136047

not good, not good........

Added by Cheryl Y on April 8, 2009 at 8:56am — No Comments