Hi GoGreenForLife, Here is a way to help and give tools to all of us for getting more RE projects started. I have been pushing for the sell of US Treasury "Energy Independence Savings Bonds". Savings bonds are normally purchased in $25 increments. This gives a way for just about any American to tighten their belts just a bit by skipping a meal at McDonalds or Pizza Hut and buying a RE savings bond to support a project. I need help pushing this project, I've faxed and emailed many in Congress/Senate already. My email is ke6cvh@yahoo.com. Here is a copy of a fax sent to Nancy Pelosi yesterday:
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:
YES CLEAN COAL IS A PROVEN LESS EXPENSIVE ALTERNATE WITH A PAYBACK IN INCREASED OIL, FOOD AND FIBER. MUCH BETTER ALTERNATIVE THAN TEARING DOWN A COAL FIRED POWER PLANT. CO2 HAS BEEN INJECTED INTO OLD OIL FIELDS FOR OVER 30 YEARS AND IT IS A PROVEN TERTIARY OIL RECOVERY METHOD TYPICALLY RECOVERING HALF AGAIN MORE OIL THAN HAD HERETOFORE BEEN PRODUCED. OBAMA RECOGNIZES THIS AND HAS BUDGETED $2.4 BIL TO ACCELERATE CLEAN COAL. BESIDES THERE IS NOT NEARLY ENOUGH VOTES IN CONGRESS TO STOP COAL. DR ROBT S POSTON, PHD
Hi,
check this out! http://www.solarbotanic.com - ENERGY HARVESTING TREES
Real Green Solutions, with real green jobs coming to America
Join our efforts, visit my page
Alex
Do a little research before you reach an incorrect conclusion!! You have the references, so look them up! Our economic system, by far the best in the world, is a market economy, capitalistic and free enterprise. This means the market picks between winners and loosers, not gov't. If the gov't picks that means we are in a socialistic or communistic society. Check Cuba out to see if you would like to live in a communist society. The USA enjoys the highest standard of living in the world. This is due solely to our system over the last 200+ yrs. No need to let "green" hijack this and slowly turn USA into another Cuba.
SURE I AM FOR SOLAR BUT NOT IF IT TAKES TAX CREDITS, SUBSIDIES, MANDATES. GO COMPETE IN OUR WONDERFUL FREE MARKET ECONOMY. MAKE IT CHEAP ENOUGH AND W/O GOV'T INTERVENTION AND YOU WILL SE SUCCESSFUL. DR ROBT POSTON, PHD
Welcome and THANK YOU for joining Pickens Plan. Here is how you can help.
Go to the MY ENERGY page. Register and make your voice count.
EMAIL A LETTER TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES BY USING OUR EASY RED "CONTACT CONGRESS" BUTTON - - With little effort, we have the ability here for you to send a letter to President Obama, our Representatives in Washington and your Governor, too.
Go to THE PLEDGE
Lend your voice to the call for American energy independence Fill in the short, standard form. Done!
YOU CAN ALSO HELP BY BRINGING 5 FOLKS TO JOIN the site today, so that we can build a voice big enough that Congress will finally have to listen to us, instead of the lobbyists and special interests, who are trying to derail this historic effort.
YOU CAN DOWNLOADTHE PLEDGE on the Main page. Print out 10 or more of them, get them signed and fax them back to Boone ASAP. This is how we build our numbers fast! Be a leader, be a part of the "100 CLUB", by faxing in 100 signed pledges. Let me know when you are done and I will see that you are added to the list.
On the upper right corner of Your Page, click on "States" to visit the Push Pickens Community for your state.
Contact and "Friend" the New Energy Army Regional Leader for your state; you can find them to the right, in the Featured Members section. Let him/her know that I sent you there and you are interested in becoming an organizer.
THERE IS NO TIME TO DELAY …to wait and see…or to see if someone else will step up to the plate. It is time for US to roll up our sleeves and go to work. Right now momentum is working in our favor, but if gas prices retreat, the public will forget the pain, and our moment may be lost.
PICKENS U We are recruiting "Campus Coordinators" for colleges and universities to represent the Pickens Plan on campus. We are looking for someone who can create a college page on the Pickens Plan site and also on Facebook encouraging folks to sign up for the Pickens Plan.
If you are connected to a college or university in your state, can be a campus coordinator, or can help find a campus coordinator, please let me know so we can get the process rolling.
PERSONAL ACTION OPTIONS We need to do more than “preach to the choir”. Sharing ideas with each other is encouraging but that will not
1) increase our membership
2) influence public policy.
3) If you know someone who is in the press, or someone who blogs, get them to cover this and ask those in the public eye to support this plan.
A GROUP FOR EVERYONE Join the Guides and Materials for New Members Group:
* Recommended First Steps * Projects * Informational Guides * Flyers*Business Cards * Bumper Stickers * Sample Letters to the Editor/Congress * Materials you can download, print and distribute * Listings of other Non-Profit Groups & available resources * Recent Technical Papers * Videos * PowerPoint Presentations and more.
Check out the many groups for Solar, CNG, your area, etc. Connect, learn and share. We grow stronger with your input. If you don't see a Group that speaks to your interest, then start a Pickens Plan related Group of your own.
OTHERRESOURCES
Posters * Power Point Presentations * Logo * Presentation Videos * Badges * Widgets * House Party Guides
IDEAS & PROPOSALS FOR PICKENS I know that many of you have great ideas and proposals that you would like to get in front of Boone's team...
They asked us to have you submit all ideas/proposals in writing to the Pickens Plan at: PO Box 12123 Dallas TX 75225.
PLEASE FRIEND ME so we can keep in touch. If there is any way I can help, please, let me know. If I don't have the answer, I will do my very best to get you the answer.
Thanks again for joining this historical effort. WE CAN DO THIS.
Visit: http://cafepress.com/PickensPlan1 The Official Pickens Plan Store. Show your support for American energy independence! All items are sold at cost. The Pickens Plan does not make any profit from the sale of items on this website.
Yes, but I thought the answer was blowin' in the wind? :^) I'm a practical guy, I looked people in the eye and said "system go boom" and they look at me like a have three eyes. We must deal in realities. I'd expect my roof to stay put in a 60 MPH gusts, but if the wind hit and sustained 115... I'd have a hard time 'expecting' to just go out and sweep the sidewalk after the storm.
I was just wondering what you as a professional consider *realistic* loads for panels & things to stay attached. As I said -- practical -- I won't sell to a customer that expects my panels to survive a hurricane Andrew size storm, or even an F3,4,5 tornado for our inland friends.
Would you be willing to talk a bit about what constitutes 'hurricane safe' in the building parlance. I get questions all the time asking: "What happens to your system during a hurricane?" And I generally answer: "If the roof blows off, it'll take the panels with it!" -- without missing a beat. Yeah, it's flippant, I know... But if they can't be serious, how can they expect me to be serious?
Thanks for joining the Pickens Plans community. We Need You!
Good News is Blowing Our Way:
* Claim: Barack Obama says his energy policies would create 5 million new "green-collar" jobs in the economy.
* Rocky Truth Patrol says:
* This is a maybe only because it's an economic estimate based on a job category that no one officially tracks - at least not yet. And depending on which economic models are used to make these estimates, Obama's forecast of 5 million green-collar jobs might actually be too low, some experts think!
Obama says his administration would invest $150 billion over 10 years in a "clean energy economy" and "help the private sector create 5 million new green jobs."
Obama takes his figures from two recent studies. The University of California at Berkeley said energy efficiency alone could create 5 million jobs nationwide in the next decade. Note that this study counts jobs created directly in this field, but also indirect jobs created by the demands of the new workers and "induced" jobs created by overall growth in the economy.
The University of Tennessee recently estimated that 5.1 million new jobs could be created by 2025 if the nation got a quarter of its energy from renewable sources. That job number also includes indirect jobs.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the nation should expect 15.6 million new jobs in the decade between 2006 and 2016. Adding 5 million "green" jobs would represent just a 3 percent boost in the total employment, which hovers at about 150 million.
The Apollo Alliance, a nonpartisan organization of business, labor, environmental and community leaders, has said they wouldn't count indirect jobs, as do the studies on which Obama relies. However, spokesman Keith Schneider said the alliance actually believes, based on analysis of these studies and others, that the 5 million figure might be too low!
"It's going to be more than that," Schneider said. "The demand for this sector of the economy way outpaces the capacity."
For example, Schneider said, wind energy - a big issue for Coloradans - is facing a capacity crunch because there is currently a three-year backlog for the plate steel needed to make the wind turbine blades. The industry needs people to make the steel, then the blades, then install them, then maintain them, he said. But federal policies - including a tax credit that has expired before and is about to expire again - have made business bumpy, he said.
"The Apollo Alliance's research on the jobs question shows us clearly that if the United States pursues a new national economic development strategy to replace fossil fuels with clean sources of energy and the tools to use them, the economy will generate 5 million new jobs, and likely much more than that," Schneider said.
Hello, Go for green , I read that you are short on current work do to the economy. Please visit my web site
www.ecotrustenergy.com.
This is a big project ,and we are looking for people in the construction field. call 419 756 9707 I'll explain all of the details then. This is a great opp. please visit our site.
Regards
William
Thank you for your enthusiasm and hard work. I will be getting back to all that have contacted me A.S.A.P.. I am presently in San Diego helping a sick friend in the hospital to get through emergency surgery. I might be staying in Ca. for a while or possibly returning to North Fl. but my business there is so slow. So this is actually another opportunity to look at interesting possibilities.???
G..G.F.L.
Dear Greenie,
You definitely seem like a "get it done girl" exactly what we need!
please join http://push.pickensplan.com/group/floridiansforsolarreform and please voice your opinions there, we need someone that's actually done something rather than talk
Have been an advocate for a Youth Energy Efficiency Corps, decentralized, nation-wide as a part of a volunter National Youth Service System for 30 years. My 1973 military experience led me to believe like the 1930's Civilian Conservation Corps this would be a good long-term strategy, and is a counterbalance to a future U.S. war in the Persian Gulf.
In 1979, I discovered a bill in the Congress that would replace the Selective Service System with what I now call a Participatory Citizenship System, and was a nice fit towards my priority of a Youth Energy Efficiency Corps.
Unfortunately my Congressman Norm Mineta, recent Secretary of Transportation, could not support this debate, and its seems everybody else agrees with his reservations then, and since 9/11.
Photo taken September 21, 2006, Me giving info and book "Gratitude: Reflections on what we owe our country" by William F. Buckley, 1990, his perspective, support, outline for a universial but voluntary National Youth Service System; to RED CAVANEY President and CEO, American Petroleum Institute, Board of Trustees member, Gerald R. Ford Foundation and The Center for Excellence in Education.
He was speaking at the Commonwealth Club of California, in San Francisco on JUSTIFYING THE PRICE OF GAS.
Download the pdf (4 MB) and get a sense of where we have to start.
Then watch us grow and implement a plan to install grid tied solar pv systems on all rooftops, and most importantly, bring an entire City back to life as Carbon Free as possible.
Just reading your profile and I think its great that your a champion for the earth. Keep up the good work and I hope business will pickup for u in the future.
Enjoyed seeing your comments on the leadership board and want to offer you an invitation to join group discussions on the creation of an investment fund that will jump start the Pickens Plan. Step onto the court and let me know your thoughts.
I'm glad to hear that you have a solar home maybe I can help your processs with a Device that I have . Hello my name is Bill ( Ohio ) I'm working with a company that recently released a devise that can save 10 to 20 % on your electric bill. www.ecotrustenergy.com
Please contact if you are looking for a energy product that is real and available now. 419 756 9707. Bill
Hi, I grew up in South Florida and it is prime territory for solar and wind. Your construction company is a great start to begin installing solar panels. Love the name of your web-site....
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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
check this out!
http://www.solarbotanic.com - ENERGY HARVESTING TREES
Real Green Solutions, with real green jobs coming to America
Join our efforts, visit my page
Alex
Go to the MY ENERGY page. Register and make your voice count.
EMAIL A LETTER TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES BY USING OUR EASY RED "CONTACT CONGRESS" BUTTON - - With little effort, we have the ability here for you to send a letter to President Obama, our Representatives in Washington and your Governor, too.
Go to THE PLEDGE
Lend your voice to the call for American energy independence Fill in the short, standard form. Done!
YOU CAN ALSO HELP BY BRINGING 5 FOLKS TO JOIN the site today, so that we can build a voice big enough that Congress will finally have to listen to us, instead of the lobbyists and special interests, who are trying to derail this historic effort.
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE PLEDGE on the Main page. Print out 10 or more of them, get them signed and fax them back to Boone ASAP. This is how we build our numbers fast! Be a leader, be a part of the "100 CLUB", by faxing in 100 signed pledges. Let me know when you are done and I will see that you are added to the list.
If you answered "YES" to Interested in becoming an organizer, there are several things I can recommend. Join the following Groups:
Organizers & Leaders
Online Action Army
Guides & Materials for New Members
On the upper right corner of Your Page, click on "States" to visit the Push Pickens Community for your state.
Contact and "Friend" the New Energy Army Regional Leader for your state; you can find them to the right, in the Featured Members section. Let him/her know that I sent you there and you are interested in becoming an organizer.
THERE IS NO TIME TO DELAY …to wait and see…or to see if someone else will step up to the plate. It is time for US to roll up our sleeves and go to work. Right now momentum is working in our favor, but if gas prices retreat, the public will forget the pain, and our moment may be lost.
PICKENS U We are recruiting "Campus Coordinators" for colleges and universities to represent the Pickens Plan on campus. We are looking for someone who can create a college page on the Pickens Plan site and also on Facebook encouraging folks to sign up for the Pickens Plan.
If you are connected to a college or university in your state, can be a campus coordinator, or can help find a campus coordinator, please let me know so we can get the process rolling.
PERSONAL ACTION OPTIONS We need to do more than “preach to the choir”. Sharing ideas with each other is encouraging but that will not
1) increase our membership
2) influence public policy.
3) If you know someone who is in the press, or someone who blogs, get them to cover this and ask those in the public eye to support this plan.
A GROUP FOR EVERYONE
Join the Guides and Materials for New Members Group:
* Recommended First Steps * Projects * Informational Guides * Flyers*Business Cards * Bumper Stickers * Sample Letters to the Editor/Congress * Materials you can download, print and distribute * Listings of other Non-Profit Groups & available resources * Recent Technical Papers * Videos * PowerPoint Presentations and more.
Check out the many groups for Solar, CNG, your area, etc. Connect, learn and share. We grow stronger with your input. If you don't see a Group that speaks to your interest, then start a Pickens Plan related Group of your own.
OTHER RESOURCES
Posters * Power Point Presentations * Logo * Presentation Videos * Badges * Widgets * House Party Guides
IDEAS & PROPOSALS FOR PICKENS I know that many of you have great ideas and proposals that you would like to get in front of Boone's team...
They asked us to have you submit all ideas/proposals in writing to the Pickens Plan at: PO Box 12123 Dallas TX 75225.
PLEASE FRIEND ME so we can keep in touch. If there is any way I can help, please, let me know. If I don't have the answer, I will do my very best to get you the answer.
Thanks again for joining this historical effort. WE CAN DO THIS.
Visit: http://cafepress.com/PickensPlan1 The Official Pickens Plan Store. Show your support for American energy independence! All items are sold at cost. The Pickens Plan does not make any profit from the sale of items on this website.
Leslie - Welcome Wagon Volunteer
I hope you will join Green Jobs Now Group
Melissa
Just wanted to take a second of your time to invite you to view the solar solution equivalent of the PickensPlan.
www.powur.com/homeenergy1
click View Our Mission and if interested click the back arrow to Become an Ecopreneur.
Also you can see what we offer home owners - www.glenburniesolar.com
Thank You For Your Time
Yes, but I thought the answer was blowin' in the wind? :^) I'm a practical guy, I looked people in the eye and said "system go boom" and they look at me like a have three eyes. We must deal in realities. I'd expect my roof to stay put in a 60 MPH gusts, but if the wind hit and sustained 115... I'd have a hard time 'expecting' to just go out and sweep the sidewalk after the storm.
I was just wondering what you as a professional consider *realistic* loads for panels & things to stay attached. As I said -- practical -- I won't sell to a customer that expects my panels to survive a hurricane Andrew size storm, or even an F3,4,5 tornado for our inland friends.
Would you be willing to talk a bit about what constitutes 'hurricane safe' in the building parlance. I get questions all the time asking: "What happens to your system during a hurricane?" And I generally answer: "If the roof blows off, it'll take the panels with it!" -- without missing a beat. Yeah, it's flippant, I know... But if they can't be serious, how can they expect me to be serious?
Thanks,
Thanks for joining the Pickens Plans community. We Need You!
Good News is Blowing Our Way:
* Claim: Barack Obama says his energy policies would create 5 million new "green-collar" jobs in the economy.
* Rocky Truth Patrol says:
* This is a maybe only because it's an economic estimate based on a job category that no one officially tracks - at least not yet. And depending on which economic models are used to make these estimates, Obama's forecast of 5 million green-collar jobs might actually be too low, some experts think!
Obama says his administration would invest $150 billion over 10 years in a "clean energy economy" and "help the private sector create 5 million new green jobs."
Obama takes his figures from two recent studies. The University of California at Berkeley said energy efficiency alone could create 5 million jobs nationwide in the next decade. Note that this study counts jobs created directly in this field, but also indirect jobs created by the demands of the new workers and "induced" jobs created by overall growth in the economy.
The University of Tennessee recently estimated that 5.1 million new jobs could be created by 2025 if the nation got a quarter of its energy from renewable sources. That job number also includes indirect jobs.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the nation should expect 15.6 million new jobs in the decade between 2006 and 2016. Adding 5 million "green" jobs would represent just a 3 percent boost in the total employment, which hovers at about 150 million.
The Apollo Alliance, a nonpartisan organization of business, labor, environmental and community leaders, has said they wouldn't count indirect jobs, as do the studies on which Obama relies. However, spokesman Keith Schneider said the alliance actually believes, based on analysis of these studies and others, that the 5 million figure might be too low!
"It's going to be more than that," Schneider said. "The demand for this sector of the economy way outpaces the capacity."
For example, Schneider said, wind energy - a big issue for Coloradans - is facing a capacity crunch because there is currently a three-year backlog for the plate steel needed to make the wind turbine blades. The industry needs people to make the steel, then the blades, then install them, then maintain them, he said. But federal policies - including a tax credit that has expired before and is about to expire again - have made business bumpy, he said.
"The Apollo Alliance's research on the jobs question shows us clearly that if the United States pursues a new national economic development strategy to replace fossil fuels with clean sources of energy and the tools to use them, the economy will generate 5 million new jobs, and likely much more than that," Schneider said.
www.ecotrustenergy.com.
This is a big project ,and we are looking for people in the construction field. call 419 756 9707 I'll explain all of the details then. This is a great opp. please visit our site.
Regards
William
Thank you for your enthusiasm and hard work. I will be getting back to all that have contacted me A.S.A.P.. I am presently in San Diego helping a sick friend in the hospital to get through emergency surgery. I might be staying in Ca. for a while or possibly returning to North Fl. but my business there is so slow. So this is actually another opportunity to look at interesting possibilities.???
G..G.F.L.
You definitely seem like a "get it done girl" exactly what we need!
please join http://push.pickensplan.com/group/floridiansforsolarreform and please voice your opinions there, we need someone that's actually done something rather than talk
In 1979, I discovered a bill in the Congress that would replace the Selective Service System with what I now call a Participatory Citizenship System, and was a nice fit towards my priority of a Youth Energy Efficiency Corps.
Unfortunately my Congressman Norm Mineta, recent Secretary of Transportation, could not support this debate, and its seems everybody else agrees with his reservations then, and since 9/11.
Photo taken September 21, 2006, Me giving info and book "Gratitude: Reflections on what we owe our country" by William F. Buckley, 1990, his perspective, support, outline for a universial but voluntary National Youth Service System; to RED CAVANEY President and CEO, American Petroleum Institute, Board of Trustees member, Gerald R. Ford Foundation and The Center for Excellence in Education.
He was speaking at the Commonwealth Club of California, in San Francisco on JUSTIFYING THE PRICE OF GAS.
Vacant Buildings - Holyoke
Download the pdf (4 MB) and get a sense of where we have to start.
Then watch us grow and implement a plan to install grid tied solar pv systems on all rooftops, and most importantly, bring an entire City back to life as Carbon Free as possible.
Hi GG,
Enjoyed seeing your comments on the leadership board and want to offer you an invitation to join group discussions on the creation of an investment fund that will jump start the Pickens Plan. Step onto the court and let me know your thoughts.
Kind Regards,
Richard Bradford
Davie, Florida
Please contact if you are looking for a energy product that is real and available now. 419 756 9707. Bill
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