Picken's Plan

Hearing lots about T. Boone Pickens and his wind and solar plan for the country. He's even running ads on the radio now.

I have a couple of questions:

1. Where's the nuclear component? One nuke plant can give us just as many gW of electricty as an entire wind farm spanning several states.
2. Why no mention of the erradic production from wind mills? England covered much of Scotland with a wind farm and is finding that on the mid-winter days when they need it the most, the wind-farm actually has a negative production.

I understand Mr. Pickens wants to do everything in the short-term as well, from ethanol to oil drilling... but nuclear should be the center-piece of any major energy plan for the country. It's a no-brainer. And it's sadly missing from this picture.