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T. Boone Pickens becomes vocal about alternative energy

July 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

So a little while back I created a post inspired by Fast Company’s article titled Big Oil Man goes to Big Wind. Turns out, T Boone Pickens has some pretty lofty goals for promoting his new “energy policy”, and is even taking out commercials on CNN and other prime-time TV spots to make sure you [...]

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Big Oil-man goes to big-wind

June 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Caught an interesting article in this month’s FastCompany about oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens and his latest move towards renewable energy - wind style. His new project sounds exceptionally ambitious:

4,000 megawatt, 2,000 turbine wind farm
Enough energy to power approximately 1,000,000 homes - offsetting the potential output of 2 nuclear reactors
Economically viable (assuming that wind-power incentives [...]

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