Posts Tagged ‘boone pickens wind farm’

T. Boone Pickens Gets Into The Wind Power Business

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Pickens new energy firm, placed a huge turbine order with GE Thursday, the first step toward the eventual 4 gigawatt wind farm. Whats striking is that hes plowing ahead on the project even though federal subsidies for wind power are up in the air, so to speak. Pickens said in Thursdays press release that he [...]

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Geothermal In North America

Friday, May 16th, 2008

I also suspect that those estimates will turn out to be hopelessly conservative. Perhaps we need to describe this type of installation as primary geothermal. The second stage geothermal development will focus on accepting a smaller heat gradient in the production fluid and using the Reverse Rankin Cycle to produce power. Fierce geothermal fluid flow [...]

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