Comments on: T. Boone Pickens Out for Water, Not Wind http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/02/t-boone-pickens-out-for-water-not-wind/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: carl massaro http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/02/t-boone-pickens-out-for-water-not-wind/#comment-61757 carl massaro Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:20:51 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=758#comment-61757 The man bought the water rights, water rights have been bought and sold for 200 years. To put a wind farm on a water shed is a great idea. Put some grass fed beef out there and keep the pesticides off the surface and cancer rates will go down in Dallas. I just hope these machines work long enough to service their debt and make a fair profit or this grand experiment will become a dismal failure and we will end up a nuclear nation . You go Boone! The man bought the water rights, water rights have been bought and sold for 200 years. To put a wind farm on a water shed is a great idea. Put some grass fed beef out there and keep the pesticides off the surface and cancer rates will go down in Dallas. I just hope these machines work long enough to service their debt and make a fair profit or this grand experiment will become a dismal failure and we will end up a nuclear nation . You go Boone!

]]> By: Scott http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/02/t-boone-pickens-out-for-water-not-wind/#comment-1470 Scott Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:51:11 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=758#comment-1470 Hmmm, give me imminent domain to build a pipeline from the midwest to the west. He says it's for energy, I really don't believe that. While people are worried about energy, water will become the real scarce resource in the next 50 years. Hmmm, give me imminent domain to build a pipeline from the midwest to the west. He says it’s for energy, I really don’t believe that.

While people are worried about energy, water will become the real scarce resource in the next 50 years.

]]> By: Scott http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/02/t-boone-pickens-out-for-water-not-wind/#comment-18496 Scott Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:51:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=758#comment-18496 Hmmm, give me imminent domain to build a pipeline from the midwest to the west. He says it's for energy, I really don't believe that. While people are worried about energy, water will become the real scarce resource in the next 50 years. Hmmm, give me imminent domain to build a pipeline from the midwest to the west. He says it’s for energy, I really don’t believe that.

While people are worried about energy, water will become the real scarce resource in the next 50 years.

]]> By: Critique of Pickens Plan misses the point | Force Change http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/02/t-boone-pickens-out-for-water-not-wind/#comment-1468 Critique of Pickens Plan misses the point | Force Change Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:20:13 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=758#comment-1468 [...] the Internet, it is especially easy to be a critic from afar, breaking down or building up different things with emotions and imagery rather than critical [...] [...] the Internet, it is especially easy to be a critic from afar, breaking down or building up different things with emotions and imagery rather than critical [...]

]]> By: Cyril R. http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/02/t-boone-pickens-out-for-water-not-wind/#comment-1467 Cyril R. Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:45:18 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=758#comment-1467 This fails to understand context. Windmills actually save water by displacing thermal wet cooled generation. This effect is far, far greater than all of the water he wants to drain. So the effect is net positive on water supplies. This is just very typical short sighted environmentalism, and I'm disappointed to see it proliferate like this. This fails to understand context. Windmills actually save water by displacing thermal wet cooled generation. This effect is far, far greater than all of the water he wants to drain. So the effect is net positive on water supplies.

This is just very typical short sighted environmentalism, and I’m disappointed to see it proliferate like this.

]]> By: Cyril R. http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/02/t-boone-pickens-out-for-water-not-wind/#comment-18494 Cyril R. Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:45:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=758#comment-18494 This fails to understand context. Windmills actually save water by displacing thermal wet cooled generation. This effect is far, far greater than all of the water he wants to drain. So the effect is net positive on water supplies. This is just very typical short sighted environmentalism, and I'm disappointed to see it proliferate like this. This fails to understand context. Windmills actually save water by displacing thermal wet cooled generation. This effect is far, far greater than all of the water he wants to drain. So the effect is net positive on water supplies.

This is just very typical short sighted environmentalism, and I’m disappointed to see it proliferate like this.

]]> By: Cyril R. http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/02/t-boone-pickens-out-for-water-not-wind/#comment-18495 Cyril R. Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:45:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=758#comment-18495 This fails to understand context. Windmills actually save water by displacing thermal wet cooled generation. This effect is far, far greater than all of the water he wants to drain. So the effect is net positive on water supplies. This is just very typical short sighted environmentalism, and I'm disappointed to see it proliferate like this. This fails to understand context. Windmills actually save water by displacing thermal wet cooled generation. This effect is far, far greater than all of the water he wants to drain. So the effect is net positive on water supplies.

This is just very typical short sighted environmentalism, and I’m disappointed to see it proliferate like this.

]]> By: Sam http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/02/t-boone-pickens-out-for-water-not-wind/#comment-1461 Sam Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:46:31 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=758#comment-1461 This seems a little off to me. The Picken's plan is really put in place to help facilitate Mesa Water? Let's do some math. The water project will generate $1 billion from a $75 million investment. Part of the Pickens Plan, his own wind farm will require 667 1.5-megawatt turbines from General Electric (with only the first installment costing $2 billion). This initial investment will cost many times more money than any profit to be made from the water project. Also - the video from Zaproot, featuring "Garden Girl"... seems to be debunking the Pickens Plan largely based on his massive wealth and his affiliation to Bush. I think its good to always look past the candy coating of projects like these, but always important to look at both sides of an issue without letting your political views skew truth. Pickens is a republican. He likes to make money. That doesn't mean the Pickens Plan is wrong. If the math made more sense, I might be a little more skeptical of the relationship between Mesa Water and the Pickens Plan, but it doesn't. This seems a little off to me. The Picken’s plan is really put in place to help facilitate Mesa Water? Let’s do some math. The water project will generate $1 billion from a $75 million investment.

Part of the Pickens Plan, his own wind farm will require 667 1.5-megawatt turbines from General Electric (with only the first installment costing $2 billion). This initial investment will cost many times more money than any profit to be made from the water project.

Also – the video from Zaproot, featuring “Garden Girl”… seems to be debunking the Pickens Plan largely based on his massive wealth and his affiliation to Bush.

I think its good to always look past the candy coating of projects like these, but always important to look at both sides of an issue without letting your political views skew truth. Pickens is a republican. He likes to make money. That doesn’t mean the Pickens Plan is wrong. If the math made more sense, I might be a little more skeptical of the relationship between Mesa Water and the Pickens Plan, but it doesn’t.

]]> By: Sam http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/02/t-boone-pickens-out-for-water-not-wind/#comment-18492 Sam Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:46:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=758#comment-18492 This seems a little off to me. The Picken's plan is really put in place to help facilitate Mesa Water? Let's do some math. The water project will generate $1 billion from a $75 million investment. Part of the Pickens Plan, his own wind farm will require 667 1.5-megawatt turbines from General Electric (with only the first installment costing $2 billion). This initial investment will cost many times more money than any profit to be made from the water project. Also - the video from Zaproot, featuring "Garden Girl"... seems to be debunking the Pickens Plan largely based on his massive wealth and his affiliation to Bush. I think its good to always look past the candy coating of projects like these, but always important to look at both sides of an issue without letting your political views skew truth. Pickens is a republican. He likes to make money. That doesn't mean the Pickens Plan is wrong. If the math made more sense, I might be a little more skeptical of the relationship between Mesa Water and the Pickens Plan, but it doesn't. This seems a little off to me. The Picken’s plan is really put in place to help facilitate Mesa Water? Let’s do some math. The water project will generate $1 billion from a $75 million investment.

Part of the Pickens Plan, his own wind farm will require 667 1.5-megawatt turbines from General Electric (with only the first installment costing $2 billion). This initial investment will cost many times more money than any profit to be made from the water project.

Also – the video from Zaproot, featuring “Garden Girl”… seems to be debunking the Pickens Plan largely based on his massive wealth and his affiliation to Bush.

I think its good to always look past the candy coating of projects like these, but always important to look at both sides of an issue without letting your political views skew truth. Pickens is a republican. He likes to make money. That doesn’t mean the Pickens Plan is wrong. If the math made more sense, I might be a little more skeptical of the relationship between Mesa Water and the Pickens Plan, but it doesn’t.

]]> By: Sam http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/02/t-boone-pickens-out-for-water-not-wind/#comment-18493 Sam Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:46:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=758#comment-18493 This seems a little off to me. The Picken's plan is really put in place to help facilitate Mesa Water? Let's do some math. The water project will generate $1 billion from a $75 million investment. Part of the Pickens Plan, his own wind farm will require 667 1.5-megawatt turbines from General Electric (with only the first installment costing $2 billion). This initial investment will cost many times more money than any profit to be made from the water project. Also - the video from Zaproot, featuring "Garden Girl"... seems to be debunking the Pickens Plan largely based on his massive wealth and his affiliation to Bush. I think its good to always look past the candy coating of projects like these, but always important to look at both sides of an issue without letting your political views skew truth. Pickens is a republican. He likes to make money. That doesn't mean the Pickens Plan is wrong. If the math made more sense, I might be a little more skeptical of the relationship between Mesa Water and the Pickens Plan, but it doesn't. This seems a little off to me. The Picken’s plan is really put in place to help facilitate Mesa Water? Let’s do some math. The water project will generate $1 billion from a $75 million investment.

Part of the Pickens Plan, his own wind farm will require 667 1.5-megawatt turbines from General Electric (with only the first installment costing $2 billion). This initial investment will cost many times more money than any profit to be made from the water project.

Also – the video from Zaproot, featuring “Garden Girl”… seems to be debunking the Pickens Plan largely based on his massive wealth and his affiliation to Bush.

I think its good to always look past the candy coating of projects like these, but always important to look at both sides of an issue without letting your political views skew truth. Pickens is a republican. He likes to make money. That doesn’t mean the Pickens Plan is wrong. If the math made more sense, I might be a little more skeptical of the relationship between Mesa Water and the Pickens Plan, but it doesn’t.

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