Haven't been able to get a response from the pickens team on an idea. Maybe you have some pull some where. Assuming the new wind farm is on hold, why not setup a fund to add a windmill to an existing wind farm ? I would contribute to it. My original reason for joining was to increase the use of wind energy.
Joe
Windspire will be featured on a special episode of ABC's "20/20" on June 19th at 10/9C. The episode highlights the impact the new Windspire manufacturing facility is having in Michigan by putting ex-autoworkers back to work.
Great Causes bring out great people. As a 25-year veteran in Power Generation & Energy Development, let me thank you for getting involved and extend an offer to provide insight and assistance in your local effort. This is a very doable plan and it starts with people like you in making it a success. The key to the plans success will be communicating to the masses. It starts with e-mailing 25 non-Pickens Plan members on a Bi-weekly basis with information on energy activities that they can relate to and gain there interest. We need to communicate reality not dreams for unfortunately the American public has a very short attention span and most are living day to day. The Pickens Plan as it stands right now is at the 50,000 ft level. We need to develop a more detailed comprehensive national execution plan for the next five years. The first section should incorporate conservation and placing public pressure on elected officials at all levels of government to engage and approve a national plan while in parallel we are designing, constructing and installing the new infrastructure systems. Once we have the grass roots base involved at this level, we can then continue to communicate the next steps of the plan to them to help bring us to the Energy Independence we are looking to accomplish
Todd,
I have agreed to take a position with our local PP group, and I need a biig favor.
Your posts have been an education for me, and I would like to impose on you for your opinion now and again. Can I count on your support? Thanks.
Steve
A message from John C. Oelund to all members of Pickens Plan District Group WA-08 on PickensPlan!
WA-08 Members,
Steve Wilmorth has stepped forward to be WA-08's Technical Group Leader. Steve will be a Member of the Steering Committee, and provide assistance to other group members on Pickens Plan details. He will be keeping a "Pickens Plan Q & A" discussion group going, so please send the tough questions to him, and he will research as need be, and post a response. He will help with speech contents (and may be speaking himself) and be available to review any group materials we release.
Steve has many years of business leadership, and has a lot of fascinating knowledge relating to politics and local events in Washington State relating to energy plans. Did you know we have big plans for wind right here in the state?
We loaded the companies on your "Support These Flegling Companies" List ... to our BurningFan application .... you can now add them with graphics and links to your page. We will do the same for Pillar when your ready. The opportunity for green, organic marketing is outstanding since the users get to control the companies they support.
We built this web application initially to support charities and causes, though have added commercial companies to pay for more development. The app was approved last week by Ning and is now available to all Pickens Plan members and to all of the 625,000 Ning communities. With the name BurningFan it is obviously targeted to the loyal fan.
I hope you like the application ... we don't collect any personal data and all banners are associated with a random code.
The banners from your list are in the Green Channel under Energy and Transportation. The app is simple to load. We generally recommend no more than 12 banners in each category ... but it is in your control, so have at it.
I'm not investing much these days. IF I'm right, around March may be the time to get back in. I'm still more optimistic on Brazilian stocks and just recieved dividends. PBR, RIO, GGB (oil, mining and steel) NONE of my U.S. stocks paid any. NAT (oil tankers) paid div. of 161 per share and the stock is cheap; I may buy more of them.
Hi Todd.......Just a quick hello and to let you know that I am a friend of Monte Smith's. We have been sharing ideas for quite sometime here on the PP. My background is in art and architecture. I have made a number of trips to Eu, particularly Germany and Denmark studying their implementation of renewable energy. I just returned from my most recent trip in October. Check out some of the European photos on my page...........>>>Lee Ewald
hmm bio plastic structure
We do not make the parts but we manufacture the ingredients to make the bio plastic parts possible.
new venture. patented. capital needed.
Todd, on the 10th of November a friend of mine on the PP site, Iain McKennon, left me a comment on my wall. Within his comment Iain said, "My approach to Pickens at this point in time is to think globally and act locally." Unbeknownst to me at the time that particular comment of Iain's firmly lodged in my mind and has ever since been gradually working its way into a position of being an influential element in my creativity regarding Green solutions.
Speaking of friends, an old friend of mine used to tell me that the road to attaining an affluence (in anything) was to go with what one knew not new things that were as of yet untried. While I am sure that there are exceptions to this rule, I do believe that empirically, my friend's advice can be seen to be immensely more true than not.
So, here I am at a juncture in my life where I want to play an effective role in environmental repair, in preventive envirionmental health and overall be an active participant in a Green solution. Therefore, in listening to a couple of friends, it occurred to me that I can probably have a greater and more effective impact by concentrating my creativity and production on a local/regional target than doing otherwise. I also recognize that acting along the lines of what I already have personal experience with and/or incorporating a familiar reality in what I do is a strong plus in anything I set out to accomplish. And, I know that while acting locally it is critical that I continue to be thinking globally.
HERE IS A SEED I AM PLANTING
I want to share this seed with you Todd because it just might be a seed that you or someone you know would want to plant where you are residing.
What I am going to do is form a corporation that is a Green construction company, an investment club, an online social community, a market research company, a research and development company, a documentation and educational video production company and an online course in the ways and means of how to build green. There's even more but those are all the top liners.
What will this company do (broad generalities only):
It will begin by doing infill development i.e., in Fort Smith, AR. Fort Smith is where I live and there is an abundance of vacant properties within the city limits that can be purchased whereupon new dwellings (single family, duplexes, three and four-plexes) can be built. Currently there are not any builders in this area that are interested in building on these properties. Instead the local builders have their attention on building in whatever new subdivision is being developed.
The company will target these inner city vacant properties to purchase and construct new dwellings suitable and appropriate to the neighborhoods where they are located. The dwellings will be aesthetic, have high curb appeal, in most cases be small ( 800 sq ft. - 1,500 sq ft.) as the lots are small, will be built to endure, will be practical, will enhance the neighborhood, indeed the city, and...will be constructed with viable GREEN technologies.
Each dwelling built by this company will be model of green construction and green technologies utilized in home building.
The company, in the process of building green homes, will also serve as a vehicle to introduce, educate and enlighten a broad base of investors in numerous cutting edge green technologies that have to do with the home and beyond.
The company will circumvent the need for borrowing capital by opening up investment (per project) to the general public (local, national or international).
Participation in this company will be made very simple and inclusive. For example: The range of investment accepted will go from as low as $10 to as high as, but not exceeding, 5 percent of a project's total cost. Therefore, the lowest number of investors that could ever be possible on any project would be 20. Investments will be done by project.
Every project will be audio/video documented from beginning to end. The video documentation will be made available to any investor who has invested in the project. Also, when the completed dwelling is sold the buyer will receive a copy of the entire video documentation of their new green home from planning to completion.
Of course, all investors will be able to follow the progress of each project that they have invested in online and interact with the project. There will be web cams at each job site, weekly reports will be online by the project mgr. including detailed photos and anecdotes and detailed weekly expenditures. And, any and all tech used in the building of the project will be thoroughly explained as it is incorporated. I guess you could say that this aspect of the company is like doing an in-house Better Homes and Gardens type of production. Who knows...perhaps it could even become a series for PBS.
The entire operation process of the company will be transparent.
Nothing is done unless the money to pay for it is immediately available. Nothing is bought on credit.
All personnel who are involved in anyway with a project of the company or the company itself are a member/investor of the company. The exception to this would be anyone employed by the government eg., builidng inspectors, city planners, etc.
This is not a volunteer based company. Those who deliver a product and/or service for the company will be paid for the product/service just as they are always paid for their services rendered.
All frontline and backline costs are factored into the overall cost of a project. The video production and the online access availability are atypical expenses to a construction project. However, these elements are critical to the purpose and operation of the company so they will become a typical expense included in the budget of each project carried out by this company. The company's motto: Purpose - Product - Profit (listed in relative order of importance).
At this stage in the creative process everything is subject to modification.
Okay. There's the seed I'm planting in very broad and general terms. I'm sure you will see and extrapolate all the possibilities and potential of such a company. Feel free to ask any questions that you may have or comment as you wish. I am totally willing to share any of this project and how it progresses with anyone. In my opinion, if we had myriad of these companies in active operation we could all only benefit by such a circumstance.
If you would like to be a sounding board for me or otherwise participate in some way in the ongoing development of this company just let me know by emailing me at mfs01@mynewroads.com
I have helped to construct many dwellings of many different sizes over the last 35 years but I have never constructed a house that totally utilizes green technologies. There will obviously be a learning curve to overcome and I will have to recruit those who have this expertise from numerous areas including the PP site. Access to green expertise does not seem to be all that available locally.
Thanks for the link. I am friends with one of the people involved in this and many areas of conservation. A very well educated European that has been hitting his head against the wall for over 20 years.
Trying to change a culture and how things have been done are very difficult if not close to impossible. Plant a tree and leave the plastic. Have a cup of coffee and throw the Styrofoam cup out the window. They have learned that tourist $$ is good and will try a little harder. No tourist and they go right back to what they did before.
You always welcome to come down for a cup. It is goooood. Not sure how “eco” it is… and don’t want to know anymore.
75 days and counting until Inauguration Day. As Thomas Friedman points out, (DAILY PICKENS article) we must mount a huge grass roots effort to get this to work!
Can you get just 10 pledges, asap? Download them and fax them back signed! MANY HANDS MAKES LIGHT WORK!
Thanks Todd, I couldn’t resist letting people know what a bunch of jerks we have running things. The $700B (that we really didn’t need) is not being used for purchasing the MBSs as specified in the bill ‘we’ voted for. Instead, as I show in the video, it is going to purchase majority interest in a few ‘gifted’ banks. But instead of using this money to generate more loans to unlock the credit problem, these banks are going to use it to acquire smaller banks just before they go under for pennies on the dollar. Then, when they finally make the adjustments to the asset valuation rules (that they should have made to begin with!) these banks will experience a 20x increase in their investments when the MBSs pop back up in value…all funded by us!
I hope the American people don’t mind getting fleeced.
I checked out your skytran site and I must say I was impressed. The few questions I have are, how would it do in cold climates? And how would it perform on grades.
On a side note I watched an excellent program on UCTV last night about L.E.D. they talked about the current lumen and its’ projected lumen and what that means for energy efficiency. If you get some time you should check it out.
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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
I have agreed to take a position with our local PP group, and I need a biig favor.
Your posts have been an education for me, and I would like to impose on you for your opinion now and again. Can I count on your support? Thanks.
Steve
A message from John C. Oelund to all members of Pickens Plan District Group WA-08 on PickensPlan!
WA-08 Members,
Steve Wilmorth has stepped forward to be WA-08's Technical Group Leader. Steve will be a Member of the Steering Committee, and provide assistance to other group members on Pickens Plan details. He will be keeping a "Pickens Plan Q & A" discussion group going, so please send the tough questions to him, and he will research as need be, and post a response. He will help with speech contents (and may be speaking himself) and be available to review any group materials we release.
Steve has many years of business leadership, and has a lot of fascinating knowledge relating to politics and local events in Washington State relating to energy plans. Did you know we have big plans for wind right here in the state?
Please help me welcome Steve to this position!
Thanks to you all,
John C. Oelund
jc_oelund@yahoo.com
We built this web application initially to support charities and causes, though have added commercial companies to pay for more development. The app was approved last week by Ning and is now available to all Pickens Plan members and to all of the 625,000 Ning communities. With the name BurningFan it is obviously targeted to the loyal fan.
I hope you like the application ... we don't collect any personal data and all banners are associated with a random code.
The banners from your list are in the Green Channel under Energy and Transportation. The app is simple to load. We generally recommend no more than 12 banners in each category ... but it is in your control, so have at it.
hmm bio plastic structure
We do not make the parts but we manufacture the ingredients to make the bio plastic parts possible.
new venture. patented. capital needed.
Todd, on the 10th of November a friend of mine on the PP site, Iain McKennon, left me a comment on my wall. Within his comment Iain said, "My approach to Pickens at this point in time is to think globally and act locally." Unbeknownst to me at the time that particular comment of Iain's firmly lodged in my mind and has ever since been gradually working its way into a position of being an influential element in my creativity regarding Green solutions.
Speaking of friends, an old friend of mine used to tell me that the road to attaining an affluence (in anything) was to go with what one knew not new things that were as of yet untried. While I am sure that there are exceptions to this rule, I do believe that empirically, my friend's advice can be seen to be immensely more true than not.
So, here I am at a juncture in my life where I want to play an effective role in environmental repair, in preventive envirionmental health and overall be an active participant in a Green solution. Therefore, in listening to a couple of friends, it occurred to me that I can probably have a greater and more effective impact by concentrating my creativity and production on a local/regional target than doing otherwise. I also recognize that acting along the lines of what I already have personal experience with and/or incorporating a familiar reality in what I do is a strong plus in anything I set out to accomplish. And, I know that while acting locally it is critical that I continue to be thinking globally.
HERE IS A SEED I AM PLANTING
I want to share this seed with you Todd because it just might be a seed that you or someone you know would want to plant where you are residing.
What I am going to do is form a corporation that is a Green construction company, an investment club, an online social community, a market research company, a research and development company, a documentation and educational video production company and an online course in the ways and means of how to build green. There's even more but those are all the top liners.
What will this company do (broad generalities only):
It will begin by doing infill development i.e., in Fort Smith, AR. Fort Smith is where I live and there is an abundance of vacant properties within the city limits that can be purchased whereupon new dwellings (single family, duplexes, three and four-plexes) can be built. Currently there are not any builders in this area that are interested in building on these properties. Instead the local builders have their attention on building in whatever new subdivision is being developed.
The company will target these inner city vacant properties to purchase and construct new dwellings suitable and appropriate to the neighborhoods where they are located. The dwellings will be aesthetic, have high curb appeal, in most cases be small ( 800 sq ft. - 1,500 sq ft.) as the lots are small, will be built to endure, will be practical, will enhance the neighborhood, indeed the city, and...will be constructed with viable GREEN technologies.
Each dwelling built by this company will be model of green construction and green technologies utilized in home building.
The company, in the process of building green homes, will also serve as a vehicle to introduce, educate and enlighten a broad base of investors in numerous cutting edge green technologies that have to do with the home and beyond.
The company will circumvent the need for borrowing capital by opening up investment (per project) to the general public (local, national or international).
Participation in this company will be made very simple and inclusive. For example: The range of investment accepted will go from as low as $10 to as high as, but not exceeding, 5 percent of a project's total cost. Therefore, the lowest number of investors that could ever be possible on any project would be 20. Investments will be done by project.
Every project will be audio/video documented from beginning to end. The video documentation will be made available to any investor who has invested in the project. Also, when the completed dwelling is sold the buyer will receive a copy of the entire video documentation of their new green home from planning to completion.
Of course, all investors will be able to follow the progress of each project that they have invested in online and interact with the project. There will be web cams at each job site, weekly reports will be online by the project mgr. including detailed photos and anecdotes and detailed weekly expenditures. And, any and all tech used in the building of the project will be thoroughly explained as it is incorporated. I guess you could say that this aspect of the company is like doing an in-house Better Homes and Gardens type of production. Who knows...perhaps it could even become a series for PBS.
The entire operation process of the company will be transparent.
Nothing is done unless the money to pay for it is immediately available. Nothing is bought on credit.
All personnel who are involved in anyway with a project of the company or the company itself are a member/investor of the company. The exception to this would be anyone employed by the government eg., builidng inspectors, city planners, etc.
This is not a volunteer based company. Those who deliver a product and/or service for the company will be paid for the product/service just as they are always paid for their services rendered.
All frontline and backline costs are factored into the overall cost of a project. The video production and the online access availability are atypical expenses to a construction project. However, these elements are critical to the purpose and operation of the company so they will become a typical expense included in the budget of each project carried out by this company. The company's motto: Purpose - Product - Profit (listed in relative order of importance).
At this stage in the creative process everything is subject to modification.
Okay. There's the seed I'm planting in very broad and general terms. I'm sure you will see and extrapolate all the possibilities and potential of such a company. Feel free to ask any questions that you may have or comment as you wish. I am totally willing to share any of this project and how it progresses with anyone. In my opinion, if we had myriad of these companies in active operation we could all only benefit by such a circumstance.
If you would like to be a sounding board for me or otherwise participate in some way in the ongoing development of this company just let me know by emailing me at mfs01@mynewroads.com
I have helped to construct many dwellings of many different sizes over the last 35 years but I have never constructed a house that totally utilizes green technologies. There will obviously be a learning curve to overcome and I will have to recruit those who have this expertise from numerous areas including the PP site. Access to green expertise does not seem to be all that available locally.
Monte
I do thnk that this is the first comment that I've left on your wall and I feel I must apologize in advance for it being a blog type comment.
Thanks for the link. I am friends with one of the people involved in this and many areas of conservation. A very well educated European that has been hitting his head against the wall for over 20 years.
Trying to change a culture and how things have been done are very difficult if not close to impossible. Plant a tree and leave the plastic. Have a cup of coffee and throw the Styrofoam cup out the window. They have learned that tourist $$ is good and will try a little harder. No tourist and they go right back to what they did before.
You always welcome to come down for a cup. It is goooood. Not sure how “eco” it is… and don’t want to know anymore.
Regards, ADR
75 days and counting until Inauguration Day. As Thomas Friedman points out, (DAILY PICKENS article) we must mount a huge grass roots effort to get this to work!
Can you get just 10 pledges, asap? Download them and fax them back signed! MANY HANDS MAKES LIGHT WORK!
Thanks and Best to you
Kim
I hope the American people don’t mind getting fleeced.
Dave
PJ posted three times on my page. Have a look if you wish.
OMG…. We have the same nose!
hope you enjoy :)
http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.asp?showID=14825
I checked out your skytran site and I must say I was impressed. The few questions I have are, how would it do in cold climates? And how would it perform on grades.
On a side note I watched an excellent program on UCTV last night about L.E.D. they talked about the current lumen and its’ projected lumen and what that means for energy efficiency. If you get some time you should check it out.
Have a nice day and keep on keeping’ on
Moo :)
have fun
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