JUL 07

This is bad news for wind and renewables in general.
But the silver lining is: there are still lots of good wind projects planned elsewhere. Its hard for me to believe that Pickens expected some other company to deliver his wind power to the grid without a solid transmission plan of his own - especially considering the scale of his project. I was a fan of his plan, but its disappointing that transmission wasn't something he could get done. Once again, lack of transmission is the killer, and is proving to be the most important factor when siting/ planning new wind facilties (or any large industrial facility for that matter). It is very expensive and time consuming to make new lines. I work in wind energy development, and I'm seeing this over and over again, that we are lacking the t-lines to get the job done at the scale that is needed. In the meantime, it is up to small scale wind and solar to fill in... that is, if the small scale market doesn't take over in the near future and make all of this infrastructure planning obsolete. I personally hope so, because this transmission issue isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Game on!

Everyone is having a rough time with set backs

Is anyone else bothered by this? (as reported in Business Week last year)

http://www.businessweek.com/ma...017753.htm

Did he ever really intend to go through with the wind farm or was it just a distraction from the water issue?

Pickens was interviewed today on NPR and stated that he is going forward with the wind farm, but there will be a delay.

"Pickens tells Robert Siegel that tight credit markets and the absence of transmission lines, which would carry wind energy from the turbines to the grid, made the postponement necessary. But, he says, the turbines and financing will be available in 2011, and the transmission will be up by 2013.

"So, it'll all fit together," he says. "We'll just be a couple of years behind schedule.""

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106397688

Definitely sucks that it won't happen for a while, but there are still a bunch of other plans for wind plants out there.

Hopefully in 2011 it gets back on track.

EXXon wins again. Who did Mr. Pickens think would help him lower gasoline and oil value? Doesn't he remember what he did to his competition?

If you look at the Picken Plan web site you will see that Pickens is claiming that the Pampa Texas wind farm is not canceled only delay.
"A very quick note to discuss one issue with you: my wind farm project in Pampa, Texas. There have been a lot of media stories about it, many of which misinterpreted my future plans. I want to be very clear with you that I am delaying, not cancelling, the project.

This misreporting is no doubt being fueled by those aggressively trying to convince Congress and the American public that wind and solar power can’t contribute significantly to solving our energy problems. They are wrong."

Or in Bloomberg article
"The so-called Pampa project will be postponed until 2013 when Texas is expected to complete a $4.9 billion transmission line, Pickens said in Washington today. News reports yesterday that he was ending the project are wrong, he said."

As Mr. Pickens announced,

He was merely delaying the wind farm idea until the price of natural gas went much higher than it is today. Currently, it's better to choose natural gas to converted the long-haul trucks(18 wheelers) to natural gas and wait till the price of natural gas goes higher to implement wind energy on large-scale basis.

The electrostatic dissociation of the covalent bonds in the distilled water molecule are being dissociated and recombined with a net gain of free energy in a non polluting medium that can be reused endlessly.

Tenacious investigation highly recommended.

RH/Sedona

http://h2o0il.com
sorry