http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/07/the-wind-energy-industry-will-survive-without-t-boone-pickens/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:33:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/07/the-wind-energy-industry-will-survive-without-t-boone-pickens/comment-page-1/#comment-9756 eugene sargent Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:44:01 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2009/07/the-wind-energy-industry-will-survive-without-t-boone-pickens/#comment-9756 Transmission and storage seem to be the biggest problems facing wind energy right now. What about bringing the mountain to Muhammed? Here's an idea I'm sure lots of people are thinking, too. Make truck mounted facilities for converting energy into useful products, and bring them to the wind turbines themselves. Many examples of energy intensive processes come to mind. What about inducton furnaces for recycling aluminum or making portland cement. A system for fixing nitrogen to make fertilizer or electrolysing water to make hydrogen could also create useful product. It would be an interesting challenge, of course, making the processes spin up and down with the rising and falling of the wind, but with clever computer controls and good weather prediction it would be a great job for some software engineers. Transmission and storage seem to be the biggest problems facing wind energy right now. What about bringing the mountain to Muhammed? Here’s an idea I’m sure lots of people are thinking, too. Make truck mounted facilities for converting energy into useful products, and bring them to the wind turbines themselves. Many examples of energy intensive processes come to mind. What about inducton furnaces for recycling aluminum or making portland cement. A system for fixing nitrogen to make fertilizer or electrolysing water to make hydrogen could also create useful product. It would be an interesting challenge, of course, making the processes spin up and down with the rising and falling of the wind, but with clever computer controls and good weather prediction it would be a great job for some software engineers.

]]> http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/07/the-wind-energy-industry-will-survive-without-t-boone-pickens/comment-page-1/#comment-9755 Rob Bryan Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:48:46 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2009/07/the-wind-energy-industry-will-survive-without-t-boone-pickens/#comment-9755 I see your point about the fodder for deniers. I'm not sad to see Pickens set back for another reason- I'm a big fan of small wind, locally owned, less transmission losses, more robust. It's interesting you used the word "treasonous". What DO we call it when someone threatens our national and planetary security for their own profit. What about population control? I see your point about the fodder for deniers. I’m not sad to see Pickens set back for another reason-
I’m a big fan of small wind, locally owned, less transmission losses, more robust.
It’s interesting you used the word “treasonous”. What DO we call it when someone threatens our national and planetary security for their own profit. What about population control?

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