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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 [...]

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 [...]

Improving how we acquire, produce, and consume energy is central to becoming economically and environmentally responsible and sustainable. Boone Pickens has gone green with a plan to spend $10 billion to build the world’s biggest wind farm. The Southern octogenarian’s plans are as big as the Texas prairie, where he lives on a ranch with [...]

Pickens cited the $1 billion a day that America spends on imported oil. The editorial writers appear to have been reading our blog. Consequently, in their latest attack, naysayers have concocted a near-doomsday scenario in which increased demand for corn sends food prices sky high. Farmers all over the world would plow up forests to [...]

Boone Pickens just goaway? Trackback So, you think the money came first or the douchey first initial thing? Ok, I cant take it anymore. Who is this guy and why does he have Oklahoma State University by the balls? Why does he think that he has the right to have rumored interest in our coach? [...]

Which is why it’s fitting that there are already rumors he might leave. Boone Pickens, might offer him $40 million for 10 years. Win or lose tonight. After what he’s accomplished at Kansas, it’s time to make Bill Self one of the highest-paid coaches in college basketball. If Kansas doesn’t, then Oklahoma State certainly will. [...]