Pickens Plans On Wind Power

Hugh Pickens writes "T. Boone Pickens (no relation) has launched an energy plan and social-networking campaign that calls for replacing Middle Eastern oil with Midwestern wind. The Pickens Plan would exploit the country's 'wind corridor' from the Canadian border to West Texas to produce 20 percent of the country's electricity and provide an economic revival for rural America. Transmission lines would be built to transport the power where the demand is and natural gas, now used to fuel power plants, would instead be used as a transportation fuel, which burns cleaner than gasoline and is domestic. Pickens proposed that the private sector finance the investment, which would result in a one-third reduction, equal to $230 billion, in the U.S.' yearly payments to foreign countries. Pickens has already invested heavily in wind, notably a planned 4,000-megawatt wind farm in his native Texas. 'We've got to get renewable into the mix. The problem for this country is that we're paying $700 billion — you heard that — $700 billion a year,' Pickens says. 'We can't afford that. In 10 years we'll be broke if we continue that.'"

Comments

Re:What about???

[indifferent children]

Nuclear is also not solar. But ultimately, all energy (including geothermal and nuclear) is of stellar origin.

Nuclear material is of stellar origin, but not solar origin. "Sol" is the name for our star (only), so materials from other stars are not "Solar". And since main series stars can only create elements up to iron (and even then, only toward the end of their 'lives'), Sol has not produced Uranium.

Re:What about???

[mattwarden]

"Pedantic" (as used in this sentence) is a substantive adjective, which is a noun.

(And, to answer your inevitable follow-up question: no, I don't get laid much.)