Billionaire T. Boone Pickens recently scaled back his plan for massive wind farms – though he’s still taking delivery on those 667 wind turbines he has on order. One of the reasons he gave for the change, besides the price of oil, was transmission problems. High capacity transmission is simply not available.

The coasts consume the majority of the electricity, but some of the best locations for wind farms and solar farms is inland. Practical renewable energy solutions will remain tantalizingly just out of reach until high-capacity cross-country transmission is available. The best way to move high volumes of electricity is via 765 kV. The 765kV grid requires no new technologies, no scientific breakthroughs. We know how to do this today.

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I was watching Discovery Channel’s “Ted Koppel goes to China,” and an interesting point came up about the benefits of a one-party political system.

I am not advocating communism or anything – far from it.  I love my country, warts and all, and I still believe that there is no better place to live on the entire planet.  But I’m not above taking my head out of the hole once in a while to see what other people are doing.

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It doesn’t matter if you voted for Obama or not. That is in the past. He is our leader now, and as citizens we owe him our support. I am not suggesting blind, lemming-like following, free of criticism or healthy debate. All I am saying is that if we don’t all act together, we may end up in a real mess.

Obama stepped into a leadership void. Same one McCain would have stepped into. Now he’s there, and it’s up to him to lead. And it’s up to us to work together to make it work.
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After we posted my open letter regarding the role Skycasters can play in the rebuilding of our nation, the response was quite overwhelming.  Many people who responded asked me to continue to build upon that momentum with a President’s Blog.