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Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?

Maybe--But Not Sure What to Organize

Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:

I have no experience

What excites you about this campaign?

It seems logical. I am a University student, and through my Sociology classes have learned just how serious this problem is, AND how it has been downplayed to the American public by the "involved parties." We must start now to educate the public, and take steps to cut our dependency on oil and save our planet.

What do you want to do to help?

Endorse the plan, spread the word, write congressmen?

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At 5:39pm on October 24, 2009, Brent Teague, mba said…: Hi Linda,

You sent an invite for me to join your network on Pickens Plan - - just now responding ... oops ...

... i see you're (or were) living in Oxford, MS?

At 5:35pm on October 24, 2009, Brent Teague, mba said…: Hi Linda,

You sent an invite for me to join your network on Pickens Plan - - just now responding ... oops ...

... i see you're (or were) living in Oxford, MS?

At 12:48pm on November 28, 2008, M.D.Fleming said…: Welcome Linda, Mark Fleming
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At 9:39am on October 30, 2008, C.D. Smith said…: Hi Linda

Have you signed the Petition yet. You can find it under the media tab.
I hope everything is going well for you this fine Thursday........Smitty

At 6:22am on October 29, 2008, Bill Tucker said…: Linda and all other Scientists, Engineers, and Designers,

Over the course of the past few months I have found myself embroiled in debates that range from politics to the best type of heat exchangers. I will say now that I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer especially when compared to people such as your selves.
The Pickens Plan has provided a place for us all to come together, to voice our opinions, push our ideas, argue for a better future, and pool our collective talents.
My talents are a long story but my story is necessary to a theme, so I would ask you to listen. When I was young like many children I had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. I grew up on Florida’s Space Coast in the midst of monumental human achievement in technology and science. My parents encouraged me to take “the hard subjects” in school, calculus, physics, and chemistry. I did well in my studies, but was unfulfilled something was lacking. Eventually I would leave my studies and join the Army. I traveled the world, was exposed to many different ideas, peoples, and philosophies. After a decade plus of serving King and country I came home and decided to return to my studies. I listened to opinion of family and friends and decided on Electrical Engineering as the course I would pursue. Once again I did well, and thoroughly enjoyed my studies. Alas I found myself once again unfulfilled and left college just short of completing my senior year and obtaining my degree. I opted to enter the construction industry where I have worn many hats over the years.
Now that I have completely bored you allow me to come to the point. My life’s experiences have given me (at least in some small ways) the tools I need to understand at least at basic levels what you are putting forth on the forums in terms of technology and the mechanics there of. In my humble opinion I am one of the few that can follow (even if it takes a lot of work on my part) what it is you are proposing and why that it might be the way to go. My talent has always been in the form of leadership to make a failing system work as intended. Systems not made of technology but of people. I do not do well with all people, but I have had over thirty years of experience in leading people to do all kinds of things. But that is my talent. Your talents are something that you understand.
But here on the Pickens Plan where people of all walks of life and all experience and educational levels want to affect change and want to understand, are your arguments really having the effect that you want?
I would propose to the Scientists, Engineers, and Designers, that collectively you all get together and develop a basic guide line of terms and processes that speak at a level that everyone can understand. I am not talking about educating everyone to your level, but providing a basic set of tools that allow everyone to fully grasp those things that are the most important. Facts, figures, base loads, graphs, infrastructures that can not handle significant increase to the grids, ammonia generation, and rising sea levels are all well and good but if they do not reach the lay person what good are they? News papers write at 8th grade levels so that they reach far more people with the news than if they were written at advanced degree level.
If many of the things that the Scientists, Engineers, and Designers discuss on the forums here were broken down like “science fair projects” more people would actively embrace these things and more pressure could be brought to bear to expedite change.
I do not profess to have all the answers and I certainly do not have you all’s background or expertise, but I do know that knowledge is power. If you want broader base support more people have to understand (at least at basic levels) what you are talking about.
Here on the Pickens plan there are many teachers and public speakers and such that could help. I just jumped way out on a limb there. We should consider as part of the plan,
Forums that discuss and teach in as non technical as possible how solar power works, how the electrical grid works, where natural gas comes from, how ocean thermal power is turned into electricity, how hydrogen is produced, how fuel cells work, and such.
I am not saying that the people here are uneducated, but if you look at many profiles you will find a recurring theme, “I don’t know much about renewable energy but I am trying to learn”. Many of you have been involved in your various areas for several decades; please allow the rest of us to benefit from your experience and knowledge.

At 2:51pm on October 20, 2008, Donald Caraway said…: Hi Linda, Thanks for your friend request. Your enthusiasm and desire to participate in the plan is encouraging and commendable. We must all decide that we have a voice and it is high time we used it. Washington is the problem and not the solution. As long as we settle for "business as usual" it will continue to get worse. Too many professional politicians that are bought and paid for by big business and special interest. The people of this great country have to "wake up" and take back the country that is suppose to be "of the people, by the people, and for the people". I continue to have hope in the great things Americans can achieve. I believe in the free marketplace where ideas can flourish and the individual can achieve by free thinking and hard work. Mr. Pickens has given us a forum to begin the discussion and come together in numbers that cannot be ignored. Perhaps someday we can look back and realize that we were part of a grass roots movement that changed the course of the world for the better. Keep up the good work and stay in touch. I would be happy to hear any ideas you have and keeping up with your progress. Our country needs "out of the box" thinkers in our schools and universities. It is the same old thinking that has brought us to this point. There will be those who will always tell you "you can't". Always remember that just because it did not work for them does not mean that it can not work for you. What did not work in the past may be the solution for now and for the future. There are larger things than ourselves. We each hold the keys to our own destiny and perhaps the destiny of the whole. It only takes a spark. We never know that our destiny may lie in being that "spark". You go girl.
Donald

At 5:28pm on October 14, 2008, Kim Perkins said…: Way to go Linda and we are doing just that ! Check out Bixby !

At 10:02am on October 13, 2008, richard summers said…: Like most of us we are challenged as to what steps to take to pressure legislators to enact legislation that would require "alternative energy" sources asap...there is enough wind here at Lake of the Ozarks to rival Sweetwater TX
and they seem to be doing quite well with wind power!!

At 8:45am on October 13, 2008, Albi Mason said…: Hi Linda,
Nice to hear from you. Are the Picken Plan and alternative energy a major topic of conversation on campus these days? Our hope lies in the strength of the younger generation. Don't let the government lull you all into a sense of comfort and then bombard you with a plethora of consumer goods to distract you from what is really going on in D.C. I believe that is what has happened to my generation and several subsequent generations. Aside from implementing a whole new system of Alternative Engeries, we certainly need to implement a whole new system of government in this country. Battle on!
Albi

At 10:55pm on October 12, 2008, Richard Wickberg said…: Thank you ffor your friend reqiest. always glad to meet someone new with other ideas in the Pickens Plan! Keep om Pushing for more new menberd!
Sinceely.
Richard Wickberg