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Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:: I always had a desire to be a part of creating electrictiy on a personal level and pursued an electrical career. I helped construct 3 nuclear powerplants and later installed high efficiency heating and air conditioning systems.

At this time, I am writing a book on the practical applications of energy efficiency and have built a web site to support this effort.

What excites you about this campaign?: Due to the narrow interests of the government, car manufacturers and energy providers, we have arrived at this point in history, but we let it happen. We thought 'others' would take care of it, but this country has gone corporate and has no real desire to do what is best, but only what temporarily pads the wallet. I think the Pickens Plan is a really good first step in us waking up and saying "We should change this. We could fix this and it only ever was us who could do this"

What do you want to do to help?: After months of research on renewable energy, i have discovered that the costs for most people to add solar or wind power is very unreasonable with respect to very long terms for payback, but this same money put into large scale windfarms will provide much higher returns, much more quickly.

I will help by promoting the push for wind power overall and will like to see whats involved with assembling individuals together to invest in these windfarms. It's the smarter way to spend money on renewable energy.

At 9:29am on October 1st, 2008, Brian Oram said…: If you get a chance - stop by our website
http://www.pnercd.org
Local Resource, Conservation, and Development Council in Northeastern PA

At 8:38am on July 11th, 2008, flcuddlyspirit said…: Hi David, you seem like an interesting guy, tell me more about your work on nuclear power plants. I live in FL where we need efficient air conditioning systems! I too am a believer in wind power as well as nuclear. Also, I am a strong supporter of public transportation and would like to see more trains, high speed like the metroliners and similar to what they have in Europe. I believe its only a matter of time b4 another terrorist takes a plane to the ground. Central FL is dependent on tourists and we need better transport to get people here and around here. I work teaching high school to special needs students. I have a dream of creating an internet survey research firm which would serve non profits, helping them improve their client and employee and donor satisfaction and making this world a better place to live. I lived in NJ not far from you for about 3 years...