Every seed takes time to germinate.
So too in the fields of the soul.
We must never give up and sow
because the results do not
immediate to our eyes.
Let us wait with patience.
In the right moment, the seeds
have driven in the soil of hearts,
there will produce mature fruit.
Understanding and sow Joy, Peace and
Courage, Forgiveness and Love.
Jesus bless you have a good nigh
hello - just saw your request - happy to join - Look forward to trying to make some changes. My regional event is http://www.pnesolutions.org
Would love to make this event a focus to help get the local pickens support together. The event is up in Luzerne County, PA in june 09
Think de-centralized production model using natural algae species that are then manipulated to turn-on the aspects of growth we all want & need. It's just water & plant food AND sunlight is FREE!!!!! Its all in how you set up and maintain complimentary and auto-reinforcing logic of the growth dynamics within the PBR environment.
We're getting another step closer to being ready to take the Hell over each and every day. It's all in the "angle of the dangle". As far as we're concerned, this time our participation in any "economic recovery" will be privately funded so as to avoid the negatives.
Just sold her (well waiting for the check to clear) as you an imagine left $ on the table. Will return to FL in a couple of weeks
your an easy character to like , its official we're friends
The only way that the car companies and the Government will ever be able to repay their debt is if the interest rate is kept at or near zero. Looks like bad news for people with more money than they need and 'freedom' for the masses..
Let's hope it doesn't come to us all needing shoes like this. The Economic Stimulus Package is likely to have us (anyone like me with an enviable GREEN job) all handling federal money as fast as we can. Hopefully we can keep our eye on reducing our need for petroleum, reducing our emissions while we recover our standard of living. Freedom from energy wastefulness can lead us to into a better future. CNG, biofuels, electrified transportation are all pieces of the answer. It is time to implement advanced vehicle technology and not hold back waiting for some "best" answer to emerge.
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As a group, we have sent over 30,000 messages to our Senators in just 2 days. THIS IS THE MOMENT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. Real action is on the table. Let them hear from us.
Boone's team has made it so easy - it takes just one minute to forward a simple message to your Senators. PLEASE do it today. Please get the folks in your home, family and office to do the same.
Hi Mr M., I read your email about your disappointment with the first effort of this administration to "change" Washington with complete understanding. I just recently sent an email to my US Representative:
I wanted a stimulus package passed. I am disappointed that the one you were presented with was not more targeted to projects that would give us the most long term benefit. I am particularly disappointed that it was almost devoid of projects for developing alternative energy. It looks like big oil and big utilities got to somebody and took those off the table before they could reach the Congress. If your reasons were anything like mine then I appreciate your vote but if your opposition was based in partisan squabbling then I want to throw up. I yearn for all of you to vote as Americans and for our interests not those of the Democratic or Republican Party or of any industry. I beg you to look at our strategic need for alternative energy and fight for inclusion of those projects in any stimulus that is to be passed.
We can not sustain our political independence while buying 70% of our energy needs from foreign countries. Look at what Russia just did to Europe with NG during the coldest part of the winter. Russia will soon be a part of OPEC and our old enemy is still our enemy and will be encouraging other enemies and sharing techniques for putting the screws to us. We must break our addiction to foreign oil now! Every wind and solar generator we install and place on-line will reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
ACT TODAY! ACT AS IF WE HAVE BEEN ATTACKED IN OUR HEARTLAND! Acting as if such a scenario is preposterous is intentional blindness.
Open your eyes. Then when you see, open your mouth and shout the warning to your fellow representatives and your compatriots in the Senate. You may never have another time like this to stand in the breech and protect the Constitution as you are sworn to do.
We are so close to losing what our founders and our soldiers for 200+ years have fought to preserve. Do not let us loose those freedoms when we could have returned to a position of energy independence if we had just looked over the shoulders of special interest lobbyists to see the millions of Americans loyally working at their jobs trusting that you are doing yours.
It's another issue but related here. When NAFTA advocates present you an agreement that would make our Constitution subservient to a North American Union document, you must feel the alarm in your bones and rise to denounce it with a clear and passionate voice.
We want to go on being the light of liberty and prosperity that has made the US the envy of the world, the magnet that continues to draw men of every race and religion from around the world to our shores. God help us when men would rather go to France or Algeria or Brazil than the USA. It could happen.
Oh yes there is more but ACT! Build solar and wind power, quick! Get us OFF foreign oil, NOW!
Mister Mikest, thank you for the XLNT video resources you provided for my Geothermal education. I have offered them as a resource from my personal website at [www.wiserearth.org/group/leland1]. Am now researching the "Energy Independence U.S. Treasury Savings Bonds" idea,at Push Pickens Plan site. Thank you again my Splended and Knoledgeble friend. Leland Luster/L.V.,Nv./02-01-09
MISTER MIKEST I did not see yours but you got to accept mine now, top right corner your page. See My Plan about The Electric Vehicle Free Conversion Foundation (EVFCF) and how you might like to help in solving the riddle "How to Avert a Traffic Jam". Well, the answer should be the rest of that riddle to write fully.
Information from the stimulus bill, HR 1, regarding funds for energy independence, according to the Congressional Budget Office Estimate:
Title V—Energy and Water. Title V of Division A would provide $48.9 billion in
budget authority over the 2009-2019 period for programs related to energy and water
resources. That amount includes $43.9 billion for the Department of Energy (DOE),
$4.5 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers, and $500 million for the Bureau of
Reclamation. Most of the funding provided to DOE would promote nondefense activities
related to energy supply and conservation, including:
● $18.5 billion for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs (including
$6.2 billion to expand existing weatherization activities and $7.9 billion for
energy-related grants to states);
● $8.0 billion to cover the subsidy costs of federal loan guarantees for renewable
energy systems and electric transmission projects;
● $6.5 billion for capital investments by certain federal power marketing
administrations in electric power transmission systems;
● $4.5 billion to modernize the nation’s electricity grid; and
● $6.4 billion for various other activities.
Hi Mike,
Sorry for the slow response. Have been super busy trying to get home to Florida. First I have to sell this sailboat. Haul out this friday, I think I have it sold, but ain't over till the fat lady sings.
Renee'
Hi Mister Mikest, 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:
Hi Mike..........Yes....the Danish stove website is: http://www.rais.dk/Product_Range-1.aspx We also have a Jotul in our dining room, but it is gas log........love it though! I also have a Morso wood stove.......nice but real basic. We have been burning wood since 1976! We took a few year break when I was teaching a long distance from my house with no way to stoke the stove. For 15 years, I worked at home as a potter and burned wood exclusively. Now that I am retired, I can update the wood factor and get back to wood heat once again....I live on 6 acres with a good share of the trees being hard wood. Some need to come out as parts of my property are overgrown and need thinning. I probably have about 3-5 years of wood in downed trees and the areas that need thinning. I love the Rais stove as it is a very contemporary design but also efficient. We saw these (Rais) and Finnish stoves when we were in Denmark last September........ You can see me as a hippie potter in the photos (about 1978) on my page! You can also see me on this website in some old archives: http://www.charlevoixwaterfrontartfair.org/Archives.htm I'm about half way down the page on the right hand side. :-))> Lee
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Every seed takes time to germinate.
So too in the fields of the soul.
We must never give up and sow
because the results do not
immediate to our eyes.
Let us wait with patience.
In the right moment, the seeds
have driven in the soil of hearts,
there will produce mature fruit.
Understanding and sow Joy, Peace and
Courage, Forgiveness and Love.
Jesus bless you have a good nigh
Would love to make this event a focus to help get the local pickens support together. The event is up in Luzerne County, PA in june 09
We're getting another step closer to being ready to take the Hell over each and every day. It's all in the "angle of the dangle". As far as we're concerned, this time our participation in any "economic recovery" will be privately funded so as to avoid the negatives.
your an easy character to like , its official we're friends
VIDEO of the very first design prototype:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmUZJYYT2n0
An article recently published:
http://www.biztimes.com/news/2009/2/6/innovations-racine-inventor-creates-a-better-windmill
Mike
Thanks for joining the ROUND-UP.
Please share with your network and add a comment about the concept at the site. It's an idea in formation and everyone's input is sought and welcome.
We’re very happy to have you with us. With you along, and 1.4 million others, maybe we’ll actually get this thing done. Keep you horse watered and your powder dry, it's going to be a long dusty ride.
Regards,
Jack Costantino
Jim Muhaw
District Leaders, NJ-11
timbersRus@comcast.net
Davis Timber Frame Co.
Boone's team has made it so easy - it takes just one minute to forward a simple message to your Senators. PLEASE do it today. Please get the folks in your home, family and office to do the same.
Here is the easy link to our Senators:
http://capwiz.com/pickensplan/issues/alert/?alertid=12548996&ty...
Let's really push the needle today. Let's make this 50,000 Wednesday! Have a great one!
Best,
Kim
>> add you to the group of friends
>> Peace MR MIKE
Hi Mike, What's up dude? I am adding you, sending a request now. Thanks and nice meeting you.
WindEnergy7
I wanted a stimulus package passed. I am disappointed that the one you were presented with was not more targeted to projects that would give us the most long term benefit. I am particularly disappointed that it was almost devoid of projects for developing alternative energy. It looks like big oil and big utilities got to somebody and took those off the table before they could reach the Congress. If your reasons were anything like mine then I appreciate your vote but if your opposition was based in partisan squabbling then I want to throw up. I yearn for all of you to vote as Americans and for our interests not those of the Democratic or Republican Party or of any industry. I beg you to look at our strategic need for alternative energy and fight for inclusion of those projects in any stimulus that is to be passed.
We can not sustain our political independence while buying 70% of our energy needs from foreign countries. Look at what Russia just did to Europe with NG during the coldest part of the winter. Russia will soon be a part of OPEC and our old enemy is still our enemy and will be encouraging other enemies and sharing techniques for putting the screws to us. We must break our addiction to foreign oil now! Every wind and solar generator we install and place on-line will reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
ACT TODAY! ACT AS IF WE HAVE BEEN ATTACKED IN OUR HEARTLAND! Acting as if such a scenario is preposterous is intentional blindness.
Open your eyes. Then when you see, open your mouth and shout the warning to your fellow representatives and your compatriots in the Senate. You may never have another time like this to stand in the breech and protect the Constitution as you are sworn to do.
We are so close to losing what our founders and our soldiers for 200+ years have fought to preserve. Do not let us loose those freedoms when we could have returned to a position of energy independence if we had just looked over the shoulders of special interest lobbyists to see the millions of Americans loyally working at their jobs trusting that you are doing yours.
It's another issue but related here. When NAFTA advocates present you an agreement that would make our Constitution subservient to a North American Union document, you must feel the alarm in your bones and rise to denounce it with a clear and passionate voice.
We want to go on being the light of liberty and prosperity that has made the US the envy of the world, the magnet that continues to draw men of every race and religion from around the world to our shores. God help us when men would rather go to France or Algeria or Brazil than the USA. It could happen.
Oh yes there is more but ACT! Build solar and wind power, quick! Get us OFF foreign oil, NOW!
Title V—Energy and Water. Title V of Division A would provide $48.9 billion in
budget authority over the 2009-2019 period for programs related to energy and water
resources. That amount includes $43.9 billion for the Department of Energy (DOE),
$4.5 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers, and $500 million for the Bureau of
Reclamation. Most of the funding provided to DOE would promote nondefense activities
related to energy supply and conservation, including:
● $18.5 billion for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs (including
$6.2 billion to expand existing weatherization activities and $7.9 billion for
energy-related grants to states);
● $8.0 billion to cover the subsidy costs of federal loan guarantees for renewable
energy systems and electric transmission projects;
● $6.5 billion for capital investments by certain federal power marketing
administrations in electric power transmission systems;
● $4.5 billion to modernize the nation’s electricity grid; and
● $6.4 billion for various other activities.
Sorry for the slow response. Have been super busy trying to get home to Florida. First I have to sell this sailboat. Haul out this friday, I think I have it sold, but ain't over till the fat lady sings.
Renee'
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
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http://www.avinc.com/cleanenergy.asp
http://www.kestrelwind.co.za/
http://www.iskrawind.com/
http://www.bergey.com/
http://provenamerica.com/
http://www.entegritywind.com/
http://www.windside.com/design.html
http://www.windside.com/
http://northernpower.com/northwind-100/our-design.html
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