by Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009)

Quote Freely From The Article – Leave The Pseudonym Alone

T. Boone Pickens, might as well be T-Bone Pickings for all the slim pickins’ he will have in the wind energy business for the foreseeable future. Some will recall that Mr. Pickens had (may still have) plans for a huge wind electrical generating facility on some 4000 acres in Texas. But, things have changed somewhat.

Mr. Pickens’, wind ideas have now changed direction, and he has some 667 wind turbines on order that will have to be placed somewhere that makes sense from from a visionary and monetary standpoint. It has been said that some of the monopoles for the wind turbines reach 400 feet upward.

What reason has been given for the brakes being put on the propellers … Mr. Pickens has said (in essense) that he could not generate mega amounts of power if there is no grid to shove the power through. A silly question perhaps, but should that issue not have been addressed before the rest of the speculative process was started?

Well, T. Boone Pickens is a very rich man, that I of meager assets, have always enjoyed watching as if he were Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks® of Orphan Annie® fame. “Daddy Warbucks” just happens to be number one on the Fictional Character Wealth List. I guess I will continue to watch Mr. Pickens, but it won’t be the same. At least for a while. The wind has been taken out of his sails and my wind knocked out of me.

You can read more about the issues involved with his project’s demise by going here to New Mexico Business Weekly.