Installation of The New will be the toughest , in order to build new the Permit tenders need to be free the addiction to monies that drive all counties commuinty's cities forward .....
My name is RoseMarie LaCoursiere, new to PickensPlan by one week. It is a pleasure to come across your page. Please know I will return with questions, and perhaps a few ideas to consider with you in the week ahead.
You may want to review and perhaps join a group I launched last week: PICKens Me! Jobs! If you do, please consider pasting your experience as listed above along with your coordinates. I look forward to knowing you.
Francis,
Unfortunately the somewhat environmentally friendly aspect of Hydro power is a big contention here on Kaua'i. We are suffering from loss of indigenous species from unwanted invaders and even though we have a virtually unlimited source of water the proposed loss/change of species habitat due to re-routing our streams for hydropower will undoubtably worsen this problem. We have plenty of water, wind, and sun but unfortunately like most of the rest of the world we are still living in the dark age of carbon. At least the present crisis will perhaps motivate us into the new age of renewables.
Chad
Francis,
TRANSPORTATION is the master key to basic survival, and the cornerstone of the economy. We all know that transportation presently depends on oil production, and oil production is peaking. We must focus first on transportation – it is the highest priority. The PickensPlan to transition vehicles to natural gas is a great start toward 100% energy independence, but is a stop-gap measure till we can transition to all electric transportation. Electric energy is strained without adding transportation demands; so we must implement drastic efficiency improvement.
Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) is a patented technology where travel occurs without air friction or rolling resistance (like “Space Travel on Earth”); ETT can accomplish 50 times more transportation per kWh (or carbon credit) than electric cars or trains. ETT is silent, low cost, safe, faster than jets, and is electric so it can make maximum use of wind or PV power. I invite you to visit my page to learn more about ETT
The presidency of George Bush is quickly waning into oblivion. The do-nothing democratic controlled congress is focused on the elections and political theatre. While an Open Letter may be well intended, it may also be wasted energy.
New energy and a new vision for the future may arrive in January 2009. Or it could remain relatively unchanged. Depends on the national priority, to wit: the economy, the wars, the housing fiasco, national health plans, and now a fathomless national debt that won't be paid, perhaps ever. The current situation reminds me of the waning presidency of Jimmy Carter and how the nation was paralyzed by seemingly unsolvable problems.
Yet the first step has indeed been taken. The Pickens Plan is a bold move towards partial resolution of energy demand problems. However, the nation has yet to turn off the lights. In other words, there can be no national energy crisis as long as the national demand for electricity remains unchanged. The energy solution, as so many health care professionals will tell you, lays in prevention more that in treatment. The Pickens Plan is a treatment approach towards a cure, a band-aid approach to curing melanoma. Somebody has to tell the patient that he is at serious risk of dying.
That's my point. If we are aiming to make change and institute a cure, than we need to tell the patient or nation in this case, that we are seriously ill and we must make changes to our lifestyle if we are going to be cured. We don't need to tell the doctors or nurses, because they already know it, but are busy with other priorities or making money from lobbyists and energy interest groups.
I would support an open letter to the next president and the next congress, and hope that their new energy will help us find sources and solutions for new energy, such as possible from the Pickens Plan. Oil is the energy of dinosaurs.
Hi Francis !
Please see this: An Open Letter to the President and the Congress of the United States;
Please sign this Petition...
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/STAY08/index.html
Thanks for joining my site. If there is anything I can help you with don't Hesitate to get ahold of me. we do wind and solar power together here in Washington State for residential, as well as commercial applications. We could also help in your area also, just let us know..
Thanks for joining our Native Wind Energy page. We are just starting with our first couple of projects for tribes here in Oklahoma but expect to move out to other areas in the near future.
Thanks for adding your comments on S.O.S.
I was just on Helium and read your excellent posts there. (I had never heard of Helium.) I hadn't thought of the Native American Nations having land for wind farms..being in the city, don't know much about the West. Is there an Native American PickensPlan group?
As I've told everyone else who's joined our group, we're in a bit of a holding pattern to see how many join and from where. Eventually we're planning to meet somewhere in the Rochester area for coffee to get some action or another going... once we get some direction from HQ.
Again, welcome.. and because interpersonal communications here is less than convenient, I'm at sdrew@rochester.rr.com, or 585-334-5421.
Hydropower is a woefully underutilized resource. Mini systems could be developed that use hydro compression techniques (start with a huge pipe and scale the pipe down as it reaches the hydro generator). It would be very interesting to see a payback calculation on such a system. Many cities have rivers running through them and this technique would be very simple to engineer.
There may be relief in sight. We need to track this legislation and make sure the American people are protected as it moves through congress. This could open up the conversion market if we hold our representatives and senators feet to the fire.
Here is a piece of legislation that proposes to deal with the natural gas regulations on the federal level.
Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma Introduces Drive America on Natural Gas Act and we need to show our support. This is a first step on the road to energy independence.
Below is the contact page.
http://inhofe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm
The regulations of certification are addressed in a way to open up the market. Finally!!!!!!!!!
David Baker contributed this section.
We have to drown out the foreign oil Lobbyists in Washington. Collectively We have to become the VOICE for changing our reliance on foreign oil, by Vocalizing our Support for the wide scale use of Alternative Energy Producing Systems.
The ACTION we can take Today is to influence our LEGISLATURE. We must change the thinking in Washington. This is accomplished by CONTACTING your Senator, Representative, Governors.
The following links to Websites are one way of Contacting Congress. I find these links to be the quickest at getting to the "contact web form" used by most of Washington.
SENATORS:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
and look for the link to their web form
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My name is RoseMarie LaCoursiere, new to PickensPlan by one week. It is a pleasure to come across your page. Please know I will return with questions, and perhaps a few ideas to consider with you in the week ahead.
You may want to review and perhaps join a group I launched last week: PICKens Me! Jobs! If you do, please consider pasting your experience as listed above along with your coordinates. I look forward to knowing you.
All the best,
RoseMarie LaCoursiere
Unfortunately the somewhat environmentally friendly aspect of Hydro power is a big contention here on Kaua'i. We are suffering from loss of indigenous species from unwanted invaders and even though we have a virtually unlimited source of water the proposed loss/change of species habitat due to re-routing our streams for hydropower will undoubtably worsen this problem. We have plenty of water, wind, and sun but unfortunately like most of the rest of the world we are still living in the dark age of carbon. At least the present crisis will perhaps motivate us into the new age of renewables.
Chad
TRANSPORTATION is the master key to basic survival, and the cornerstone of the economy. We all know that transportation presently depends on oil production, and oil production is peaking. We must focus first on transportation – it is the highest priority. The PickensPlan to transition vehicles to natural gas is a great start toward 100% energy independence, but is a stop-gap measure till we can transition to all electric transportation. Electric energy is strained without adding transportation demands; so we must implement drastic efficiency improvement.
Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) is a patented technology where travel occurs without air friction or rolling resistance (like “Space Travel on Earth”); ETT can accomplish 50 times more transportation per kWh (or carbon credit) than electric cars or trains. ETT is silent, low cost, safe, faster than jets, and is electric so it can make maximum use of wind or PV power. I invite you to visit my page to learn more about ETT
New energy and a new vision for the future may arrive in January 2009. Or it could remain relatively unchanged. Depends on the national priority, to wit: the economy, the wars, the housing fiasco, national health plans, and now a fathomless national debt that won't be paid, perhaps ever. The current situation reminds me of the waning presidency of Jimmy Carter and how the nation was paralyzed by seemingly unsolvable problems.
Yet the first step has indeed been taken. The Pickens Plan is a bold move towards partial resolution of energy demand problems. However, the nation has yet to turn off the lights. In other words, there can be no national energy crisis as long as the national demand for electricity remains unchanged. The energy solution, as so many health care professionals will tell you, lays in prevention more that in treatment. The Pickens Plan is a treatment approach towards a cure, a band-aid approach to curing melanoma. Somebody has to tell the patient that he is at serious risk of dying.
That's my point. If we are aiming to make change and institute a cure, than we need to tell the patient or nation in this case, that we are seriously ill and we must make changes to our lifestyle if we are going to be cured. We don't need to tell the doctors or nurses, because they already know it, but are busy with other priorities or making money from lobbyists and energy interest groups.
I would support an open letter to the next president and the next congress, and hope that their new energy will help us find sources and solutions for new energy, such as possible from the Pickens Plan. Oil is the energy of dinosaurs.
Please see this: An Open Letter to the President and the Congress of the United States;
Please sign this Petition...
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/STAY08/index.html
Be well,
Bruce
Thanks for joining my site. If there is anything I can help you with don't Hesitate to get ahold of me. we do wind and solar power together here in Washington State for residential, as well as commercial applications. We could also help in your area also, just let us know..
Have a great week,
Kraig
http://www.navitron.org.uk/download_category.php?id=26
http://www.navitron.org.uk/download.php
http://www.navitron.org.uk/category.php?catID=70
I was just on Helium and read your excellent posts there. (I had never heard of Helium.) I hadn't thought of the Native American Nations having land for wind farms..being in the city, don't know much about the West. Is there an Native American PickensPlan group?
As I've told everyone else who's joined our group, we're in a bit of a holding pattern to see how many join and from where. Eventually we're planning to meet somewhere in the Rochester area for coffee to get some action or another going... once we get some direction from HQ.
Again, welcome.. and because interpersonal communications here is less than convenient, I'm at sdrew@rochester.rr.com, or 585-334-5421.
Steve
There may be relief in sight. We need to track this legislation and make sure the American people are protected as it moves through congress. This could open up the conversion market if we hold our representatives and senators feet to the fire.
Here is a piece of legislation that proposes to deal with the natural gas regulations on the federal level.
Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma Introduces Drive America on Natural Gas Act and we need to show our support. This is a first step on the road to energy independence.
Below is the contact page.
http://inhofe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm
Here is Senator James M. Inhofes website
http://inhofe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=32cee86f-802a-23ad-4e25-8ceb2615ebae
The regulations of certification are addressed in a way to open up the market. Finally!!!!!!!!!
David Baker contributed this section.
We have to drown out the foreign oil Lobbyists in Washington. Collectively We have to become the VOICE for changing our reliance on foreign oil, by Vocalizing our Support for the wide scale use of Alternative Energy Producing Systems.
The ACTION we can take Today is to influence our LEGISLATURE. We must change the thinking in Washington. This is accomplished by CONTACTING your Senator, Representative, Governors.
The following links to Websites are one way of Contacting Congress. I find these links to be the quickest at getting to the "contact web form" used by most of Washington.
SENATORS:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
and look for the link to their web form
Representatives:
https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml
To Contact Your Governor:
http://www.nga.org (national Gov. list)
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
http://speaker.house.gov/contact/
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
http://reid.senate.gov/contact/
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
http://mcconnell.senate.gov/contact_form.cfm
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
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