Wind Turbine Base Jumping--INSANE!
T. Boone Pickens would have a field day with these wild wind turbine base-jumping bandits. This video is insane! Base-jumping off the blade of a giant wind turbine . . . jeeez.
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Pickens wants to make money. We may not like him but his entrepreneur and daring. These are the people that have shaped America like Ford.
His putting his money where the future of energy is at and that I think is a good thing. His thumbprint serves as a valid point that we can and should get off of oil. Its a finite source of energy that will one day run out. So I think its a good thing.
Can it be done? Of course, it can be done. The question is, will it be done.
How much will it cost? A lot. However, it will cost even more if we don't do it.
Actually it's, Can it be Done? Yes. Unless you ask a republican and they will give you a million reasons why it can't be done. The can't do spirit of America.
All of this talk means nothing with the "not in my back yard" attitude when it comes to wind mills. Ask the Kennedy's all about it. I, for one, am all for a comprimise on both sides to get us to energy independence.
Pickens is doing the same thing Al Gore is doing right now. Invest in something big time (wind power and carbon credits) and then hope for government to give you more money or pass laws that mandate your investment.
It's a smart plan.
I smell something rotten in Denmark when an oil zillionaire starts getting eco-concious. Did his oil run out? Does he own offshore drilling rights? Does he own land to place the windmills on? His thrust is not to buy oil from the Middle East. His concern for the nation and it's ecology just doesn't ring true to me.
He wants to convert natural gas (which he owns lots of) into liquid petroleum. He would make money off of that. In the long run, I think we would be better off getting our cars off of petroleum altogether, but that is still consistent with his willingness to produce electricity from wind.
You have to READ the text of his most recent TV ads to find the rat in the wood pile. While the visuals are all about renewables (wind & solar) the text fleetingly mentions coal gasification. It is the natural gas issue of coal gasification that his the REAL agenda. And coal gas is a just another hydrocarbon that will not solve the climate change problems. The ad is very sneaky. The beginning of the ad shows the text and the spoken words in sync, but when he gets to coal gasification the text is not spoken so you have a tendency to over look the text. In fact the text about coal gasification is talked over. I missed the text the first few times I watched the ad. Pickens ad is a very slick piece of misleading propaganda.
Is Pickens acting out of his own self interest or a love of ecology? Does it really make any difference when the result and methods are the same? I would suspect that Pickens weighed the chance of congress putting additional costs on his oil production and the tax credits he would gain from wind farms and chose the latter. This is capitalism and greed at its finest. By acting in his own self interest Pickens creates the side benefit of reducing pollution and helping everyone.
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