Hi Seth, Here is a tool for all of us to get RE projects started by selling 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 renewable energy project and save money at the same time for themselves. I need help pushing this project, I've faxed and emailed many in Congress/Senate already.If you agree with this plan please consider passing to other people in your district as it will be a great tool to get funding for PickensPlan projects. This is a way to help and give tools to all of us for getting more RE projects started. My email is ke6cvh@yahoo.com. Here is a copy of a fax sent to Nancy Pelosi the other day:
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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
Mr. Spouse,
The stimulus package that Mr. Pickens wants us to support is a gigantic pork barrel bill. We need to support Rep. Boehner's bill that will alleviate the recession more quickly and at a lower cost. Mr. Pickens needs to focus on getting lands opened for drilling both offshore and in ANWR. If you would read the report from the russian climatologists and the report from the George C. Marshall Institute, you would see that the evidence is mounting that we are going into a period of cooling leading to a new ice age. If they are right, we will need every source of Btu's that we can find as well as a top military as the medieval cooling period caused famine and wars over food. While discussing the middle ages, the warm period around 1000 A.D. caused longer growing seasons and even the cultivation of wheat in Greenland. This was from a 7 degree increase in average temperature which is a lot more than the 0.2 degree rise predicted by the global warming alarmists. So buy a coal heater and a couple of tons of coal to back up any electric system you have. Also, it is shown that although CO2 has risen the last five years, the temperature has gone down significantly. In a way I would prefer global warming to a new ice age due to the growing season effect. I really do like to eat. If you get ahold of Mr. Pickens, please get him to focus on energy independence and the use of all our resources including coal, oil, CNG, wind, solar, and nuclear. We also need to stop sending Islam, which seeks our destruction, millions of dollars per year that they use for weapons to destroy us.
W Howard Baker
Bardstown, KY
Seth, my name is craig kincaid I live in rural Glasgow (Finney). Hope this thing takes off. We've been walking the auto malls since 1974. Its time we drove one off the lot.
Seth,
First,I want to thank you for taking on the position of organizing the Second District's Pickens Army.
I notice that when I receive information from the Pickens group,that they have some of the politician's names wrong.For instance,when asked,a few month's ago to contact our Governor,it still had Fletcher's name there.
Also,though Ron Lewis,is technically still our Second District Representative to Congress,B. Guthrie is the one that people from our district should be contacting,since he will very soon be our Rep.
We need him knowing who we are and what we expect from him on the day he takes office.
Does anyone know how we can contact him in advance of his swearing in? If not,does anyone know what his e-mail address will be when he is assigned his office? If we can get that,we can have hundreds of "Pickens Plan supporters' e-mails waiting for him when he arrives.
Thanks,
Michael Boone
Owensboro.
At 10:54am on November 10, 2008, Kim Anderson said…
Hi Seth
The clock is ticking. Both Thomas Freidman and The Gang of 20 have told us (see DAILY PICKENS) the only way to change America's energy policy is to build this historical, grass roots effort to un-ignorable heights. There are less than 75 days until Inauguration Day. We must concentrate on the job at hand. CAN YOU GET 10 signed pledges faxed in asap? Many hands make light work.
thank you for sending me the email and inviting me to be a friend...Pickens Plan is having trouble getting traction in my part of KY. They think he is a enemy of coal...if I can just get them to read the plan...
At 11:22am on October 16, 2008, Kim Anderson said…
Hi Seth!
It has been a while since we kept in touch last!
We are now over 1.2 million suporters. We will need many more if we are to beat back the damn lobbyists and special interests. Can you help with the pledges? Every American needs to sign on. With pledges we can fan out and reach so many. It is an easy ask- Boone has done the hard work. I was able to get 300 signed in the first 4 days - everyone wants to to get off of foreign oil. We may never have a golden opportunity like this again!
ARE YOU IN?
Please congratulate Karen Nardella for being invited to the 100CLUB - for faxing/sendng in more than 100 signed pledges. She is a Picken's hero! Her story is on the 100CLUB Group page - read how she accomplished it!
Best
Kim
Would like to hear how you are doing with the pledge push?
I just wanted to stop by and welcome you to the Communications Support Group. Our purpose is to enable new and current members to understand "The Pickens Plan," and provide them with guides, flyers, brochures, videos, and PowerPoint presentations. Today a “Resources” page was added to the CommSupp group’s page, which better organizes the materials and adds a lot of additional resources members may be interested in. The CommSupp group is composed entirely of volunteer members. We welcome you to submit materials which might assist other members, suggest improvements to the group’s Resource page, and undertake other activities which may be of interest to you. Thank you again for joining.
Seth - This may be 10yrs into future - but - Have you read this article on giant leap for SOLAR energy out of M.I.T.? “…Until now, (8-5-08) solar power has been a daytime-only energy source, because storing extra solar energy for later use is prohibitively expensive and grossly inefficient. With today's announcement, MIT researchers have hit upon a simple, inexpensive, highly efficient process for storing solar energy…”
I found this document at the AWEA. It really tells you how to get started. In addition, if you go to the main page for the AWEA, you will get a lot more information. Many of their spreadsheets give names of those that are in the business of building wind farms.
http://www.awea.org
and
http://www.awea.org/pubs/factsheets/10stwf_fs.PDF
entitled - 10 Steps in Building a Wind Farm
Everyone seems to be looking for this information.
Join us at the group "Paradigm Shift Institute", a proposed nonprofit laboratory dedicated to educaion, innovation, entrepeneurship, and solving global challenges.
Seht;
Glad to see you got the information. Of the 3,000 or so acres usable in the area I own about 600 and have interest shown by the owners of another 1,200. The biggest two questions I get are 1) how soon can something be done as far as getting production started and 2) what kind of a percentage can they expect for themselves. To be honest after the way that the landowners were treated by some of the developers and speculators that have been here in Missouri lots of questions from people that are starting to educate themselves need to be answered. So there are both positives and negatives in this area but pickens has got a lot of them talking about this in a serious way.
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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
The stimulus package that Mr. Pickens wants us to support is a gigantic pork barrel bill. We need to support Rep. Boehner's bill that will alleviate the recession more quickly and at a lower cost. Mr. Pickens needs to focus on getting lands opened for drilling both offshore and in ANWR. If you would read the report from the russian climatologists and the report from the George C. Marshall Institute, you would see that the evidence is mounting that we are going into a period of cooling leading to a new ice age. If they are right, we will need every source of Btu's that we can find as well as a top military as the medieval cooling period caused famine and wars over food. While discussing the middle ages, the warm period around 1000 A.D. caused longer growing seasons and even the cultivation of wheat in Greenland. This was from a 7 degree increase in average temperature which is a lot more than the 0.2 degree rise predicted by the global warming alarmists. So buy a coal heater and a couple of tons of coal to back up any electric system you have. Also, it is shown that although CO2 has risen the last five years, the temperature has gone down significantly. In a way I would prefer global warming to a new ice age due to the growing season effect. I really do like to eat. If you get ahold of Mr. Pickens, please get him to focus on energy independence and the use of all our resources including coal, oil, CNG, wind, solar, and nuclear. We also need to stop sending Islam, which seeks our destruction, millions of dollars per year that they use for weapons to destroy us.
W Howard Baker
Bardstown, KY
First,I want to thank you for taking on the position of organizing the Second District's Pickens Army.
I notice that when I receive information from the Pickens group,that they have some of the politician's names wrong.For instance,when asked,a few month's ago to contact our Governor,it still had Fletcher's name there.
Also,though Ron Lewis,is technically still our Second District Representative to Congress,B. Guthrie is the one that people from our district should be contacting,since he will very soon be our Rep.
We need him knowing who we are and what we expect from him on the day he takes office.
Does anyone know how we can contact him in advance of his swearing in? If not,does anyone know what his e-mail address will be when he is assigned his office? If we can get that,we can have hundreds of "Pickens Plan supporters' e-mails waiting for him when he arrives.
Thanks,
Michael Boone
Owensboro.
The clock is ticking. Both Thomas Freidman and The Gang of 20 have told us (see DAILY PICKENS) the only way to change America's energy policy is to build this historical, grass roots effort to un-ignorable heights. There are less than 75 days until Inauguration Day. We must concentrate on the job at hand. CAN YOU GET 10 signed pledges faxed in asap? Many hands make light work.
PLEASE,
Kim
It has been a while since we kept in touch last!
We are now over 1.2 million suporters. We will need many more if we are to beat back the damn lobbyists and special interests. Can you help with the pledges? Every American needs to sign on. With pledges we can fan out and reach so many. It is an easy ask- Boone has done the hard work. I was able to get 300 signed in the first 4 days - everyone wants to to get off of foreign oil. We may never have a golden opportunity like this again!
ARE YOU IN?
Best
Kim
Please congratulate Karen Nardella for being invited to the 100CLUB - for faxing/sendng in more than 100 signed pledges. She is a Picken's hero! Her story is on the 100CLUB Group page - read how she accomplished it!
Best
Kim
Would like to hear how you are doing with the pledge push?
Take a look -
fuelcelltoday.com
http://www.awea.org
and
http://www.awea.org/pubs/factsheets/10stwf_fs.PDF
entitled - 10 Steps in Building a Wind Farm
Everyone seems to be looking for this information.
Join us at the group "Paradigm Shift Institute", a proposed nonprofit laboratory dedicated to educaion, innovation, entrepeneurship, and solving global challenges.
Glad to see you got the information. Of the 3,000 or so acres usable in the area I own about 600 and have interest shown by the owners of another 1,200. The biggest two questions I get are 1) how soon can something be done as far as getting production started and 2) what kind of a percentage can they expect for themselves. To be honest after the way that the landowners were treated by some of the developers and speculators that have been here in Missouri lots of questions from people that are starting to educate themselves need to be answered. So there are both positives and negatives in this area but pickens has got a lot of them talking about this in a serious way.
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