(07-10-2009 08:44 AM)Rebel Wrote:  

T. Boone Pickens has over 600 wind turbines he has to get rid of. Seems like he bought them from GE for his "wind farm" idea in West Texas.

He had to cancel the project because he couldn't get easements and right of ways to run the power transmission lines. The Texas Legislature didn't grant him eminent domain authority and he can't make the project work $ wise if he has to buy right of ways.

Seems like he would have solved that problem before he bought the turbines.

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Heck, I'll take a couple if he is giving them away.

Can you imagine the Wattage this puppies will be putting out in a Hurricane ????

Call me T. Boone at 867-5309 e ian ine - - ask for Jenny - - use the Code Word, "Tommy TuTone".

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(07-10-2009 08:50 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  

(07-10-2009 08:44 AM)Rebel Wrote:  

T. Boone Pickens has over 600 wind turbines he has to get rid of. Seems like he bought them from GE for his "wind farm" idea in West Texas.

He had to cancel the project because he couldn't get easements and right of ways to run the power transmission lines. The Texas Legislature didn't grant him eminent domain authority and he can't make the project work $ wise if he has to buy right of ways.

Seems like he would have solved that problem before he bought the turbines.

Where did you read that? Centerpoint has said they will build infrastructure to the windfarm facility. Centerpoint has 7% of it's electricity in wind generation.

(07-10-2009 08:50 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  

(07-10-2009 08:44 AM)Rebel Wrote:  

T. Boone Pickens has over 600 wind turbines he has to get rid of. Seems like he bought them from GE for his "wind farm" idea in West Texas.

He had to cancel the project because he couldn't get easements and right of ways to run the power transmission lines. The Texas Legislature didn't grant him eminent domain authority and he can't make the project work $ wise if he has to buy right of ways.

Seems like he would have solved that problem before he bought the turbines.

Or if the Texass legislature wasn't bought off by big oil.

So Pickens bought off the legislature to go against himself? Can you even manage a brain fart, cause I don't think there is any activity going on there.

(07-10-2009 03:24 PM)SumOfAllFears Wrote:  

(07-10-2009 08:50 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  

(07-10-2009 08:44 AM)Rebel Wrote:  

T. Boone Pickens has over 600 wind turbines he has to get rid of. Seems like he bought them from GE for his "wind farm" idea in West Texas.

He had to cancel the project because he couldn't get easements and right of ways to run the power transmission lines. The Texas Legislature didn't grant him eminent domain authority and he can't make the project work $ wise if he has to buy right of ways.

Seems like he would have solved that problem before he bought the turbines.

Where did you read that? Centerpoint has said they will build infrastructure to the windfarm facility. Centerpoint has 7% of it's electricity in wind generation.

HOUSTON – Plans for the world's largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle have been scrapped, energy baron T. Boone Pickens said Tuesday, and he's looking for a home for 687 giant wind turbines.

Pickens has already ordered the turbines, which can stand 400 feet tall — taller than most 30-story buildings.

"When I start receiving those turbines, I've got to ... like I said, my garage won't hold them," the legendary Texas oilman said. "They've got to go someplace."

Pickens' company Mesa Power ordered the turbines from General Electric Co. — a $2 billion investment — a little more than a year ago. Pickens said he has leases on about 200,000 acres in Texas that were planned for the project, and he might place some of the turbines there, but he's also looking for smaller wind projects to participate in. He said he's looking at potential sites in the Midwest and Canada.

In Texas, the problem lies in getting power from the proposed site in the Panhandle to a distribution system, Pickens said in an interview with The Associated Press in New York. He'd hoped to build his own transmission lines but he said there were technical problems.

Wind power is a big part of the "Pickens Plan," which was announced a year ago Wednesday. Pickens has spent $60 million crisscrossing the country and buying advertising in an effort to reduce the nation's reliance on foreign oil.

"It doesn't mean that wind is dead," said Pickens, who runs the Dallas-based energy investment fund BP Capital. "It just means we got a little bit too quick off the blocks."

Pickens announced in 2007 plans to install the turbines in parts of four Texas Panhandle counties.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090707/ap_o...ind_energy

(07-11-2009 07:58 AM)Paul M Wrote:  So Pickens bought off the legislature to go against himself? Can you even manage a brain fart, cause I don't think there is any activity going on there.

I thought he got out of the oil business. Besides, the man is rich but the oil companies are richer.

(07-11-2009 09:58 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  

(07-10-2009 03:24 PM)SumOfAllFears Wrote:  

(07-10-2009 08:50 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  

(07-10-2009 08:44 AM)Rebel Wrote:  

T. Boone Pickens has over 600 wind turbines he has to get rid of. Seems like he bought them from GE for his "wind farm" idea in West Texas.

He had to cancel the project because he couldn't get easements and right of ways to run the power transmission lines. The Texas Legislature didn't grant him eminent domain authority and he can't make the project work $ wise if he has to buy right of ways.

Seems like he would have solved that problem before he bought the turbines.

Where did you read that? Centerpoint has said they will build infrastructure to the windfarm facility. Centerpoint has 7% of it's electricity in wind generation.

HOUSTON – Plans for the world's largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle have been scrapped, energy baron T. Boone Pickens said Tuesday, and he's looking for a home for 687 giant wind turbines.

Pickens has already ordered the turbines, which can stand 400 feet tall — taller than most 30-story buildings.

"When I start receiving those turbines, I've got to ... like I said, my garage won't hold them," the legendary Texas oilman said. "They've got to go someplace."

Pickens' company Mesa Power ordered the turbines from General Electric Co. — a $2 billion investment — a little more than a year ago. Pickens said he has leases on about 200,000 acres in Texas that were planned for the project, and he might place some of the turbines there, but he's also looking for smaller wind projects to participate in. He said he's looking at potential sites in the Midwest and Canada.

In Texas, the problem lies in getting power from the proposed site in the Panhandle to a distribution system, Pickens said in an interview with The Associated Press in New York. He'd hoped to build his own transmission lines but he said there were technical problems.

Wind power is a big part of the "Pickens Plan," which was announced a year ago Wednesday. Pickens has spent $60 million crisscrossing the country and buying advertising in an effort to reduce the nation's reliance on foreign oil.

"It doesn't mean that wind is dead," said Pickens, who runs the Dallas-based energy investment fund BP Capital. "It just means we got a little bit too quick off the blocks."

Pickens announced in 2007 plans to install the turbines in parts of four Texas Panhandle counties.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090707/ap_o...ind_energy

Thanks, I know some people involved in this at Centerpoint, so I'll ask them and post anything I find out.