Scott Benson

Natural Gas & Wind Power - The Pickens Plan

In the 1990s, we already tried the natural gas vehicles (my organization had CNG pickups and vans that I helped manage). They didn't work for a number of reasons. And the wind, while it will play a role in electricity supply, doesn't work if it isn't windy, and you end up keeping all the coal-fired plants on-line (and hot) anyway for when the sun isn't shining and it isn't windy. The plan is fine on paper. In the real world, I don't see this coming together. But we are gonna need to electrify transportation, one way or the other. Nukes probably.