DALLAS - T. Boone Pickens, who has spent more than a year telling Americans the answer to their energy woes is natural gas, says the U.S. natural gas supply will probably...
In 2006, the Electrical Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) published a study that showed that while West Texas Wind resources were considered among the best in the United States, they were poorly matched to the needs of Texas Electrical consumers . The ERCOT staff reported: These data indicate that the representative areas in West Texas have their highest monthly capacity factors in the spring months...
Pickens has spent $62 million of his own money, and most of his time since July 2008, promoting the Pickens Plan to get the U.S. off of foreign oil. He suggests switching vehicles to domestic natural gas instead of using foreign oil. He also wants the country to add more wind power to the electrical grid.
Energy baron T. Boone Pickens wants to see delivery trucks and just about any other vehicle that “returns to the ‘barn’ each night” running on natural gas. A relative newcomer to the U.S. market, Electric Vehicles International, has just moved to Stockton, Calif., from its former Toluca, Mexico, headquarters and office in Texas (T. Boone’s [...]
The unveiling of the T. Boone Pickens YMCA at Ross and Akard Street updates one of the city's oldest institutions (124 years old this month) – and fills in another piece in what has been a startling few weeks along downtown's northern tier.
This week at Fast Company, we looked at China's entry into the Texas wind power industry, Cereplast's plastic made out of algae, the long-term future of trucking, and a proposal to build floating cities in the Netherlands. T. Boone Pickens scrapped his...
This week at Fast Company, we looked at China's entry into the Texas wind power industry, Cereplast's plastic made out of algae, the long-term future of trucking, and a proposal to build floating cities in the Netherlands. T. Boone Pickens scrapped his massive wind power project in Texas. Now China has come in to pick up the pieces with a 240-turbine wind farm in the state. Algae is one of the hottest...
Monday evening as the Texas Tribune raced toward its launch this morning (some elements aren’t live yet), Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith took me through the new nonprofit journalism site—news stories, databases, blogs, a combined Twitter feed for every elected politician in Texas, the start of a Texas politics wiki. Unlike some of the new crop of local and regional news startups, the Tribune...
Marylandreporter.com is a new online-only state politics news site founded by former Baltimore Examiner editor Len Lazarick. The site contains information on Lazarick, who is publishing it, but no information on its backing. Let’s shed some light on that. Len Lazarick is an experienced political reporter in Maryland. His resume includes stints as a reporter and editor at the Washington Post and...
It was just one of those weeks in college football... must have been the haints and boogers out in full force, because some interesting doings were afoot. For instance, our favorite Halloween colored team won it's first game, as the Anderson Ravens said "Nevermore" to Bluffton's Beavers. The Cougars of Azusa Pacific also added one to the "W" column, handily defeating Trinity Texas....
GAME 9: #3 Texas Longhorns (7-0, 4-0) at #14 Oklahoma St. Cowboys (6-1, 3-0) Saturday, October 31, 2009 · 7:00 p.m. CT T. Boone Pickens Stadium ·Stillwater, OK TV: ABC / ESPN 2 ( coverage map ) The Eyes of Texas Texas Fight Song
Show Notes for "This Week In Nuclear" Podcast (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Download mp3 here I’m happy to see the nuclear industry getting it’s name out there in the public eye. It’s about time! The latest venture is sponsorship of the Washington Capitols Hockey Team in an advertisement promoting the “Clean Air benefits” at Verizon Center in Washing DC. Hey, if T. Boone Pickens can do it, so can we! According to the Associated Press, the ad has...
Oh, the irony. All-American oilman T. Boone Pickens scraps his plans for the world's biggest wind farm--a $10 billion project in Texas--and who comes in to pick up the pieces? China. The communist country is honing in on the Texas wind industry with a $1.5-billion, 36,000-acre project in West Texas. It's not quite Pickens-scale, but it is the biggest Chinese investment in U.S. renewable energy to...
Ira Mack submits: Solar Energy has been one of the most notable of all the Green/Clean technologies. Solar Energy is not a new phenomenon; it can be traced back before the birth of Jesus, but did not start getting serious notice until the multiple The Energy Crisis of the 1970s crippled America. The oil embargo of 1973 was the first incident, with OPEC’s “October War” when they decided...
The Pickens Plan: Tossing Oil Dependency into the Wind T. Boone Pickens, the 117th wealthiest person in America, has developed a plan that he believes can replace more than one-third of our foreign oil imports in 10 years. One of the wo...