Dear Mr. Pickens,
I saw your plan in two different You Tube videos. As a Caltech grad (MS in EE, 1954), I was impressed. IMHO, we, as a nation, should consider all of the energy sources that you enumerated, but the "playing field" should be leveled. All government interference in the energy markets should be stopped. This will allow all technologies to compete--the market will select those technologies that are most cost-effective. It was government regulations, subsidies, and taxes that brought us the "energy crisis" (strictly speaking it is a power crisis rather than an energy crisis).
The energy crisis cannot be completely solved as long energy production depends upon consumption of material. Our scientific community tells us that that is impossible, but that hasn't stopped people from doing just that.
Consider Nikola Tesla's Electric Car which would go up to 80 MPH without any fuel or batteries. See this URL scroll down to "Nikola Tesla's Electric Car." If Tesla could build an electric car that required no fuel or batteries in 1931 with the electrical/electronic components available then, why cannot we do it today. The answer is that the Electrical Engineering mathematical model was changed circa 1900 to exclude all systems that could result a COP greater than unity; Tesla used the model published by James Clerk Maxwell in 1864. See: M. W. Evans et al., "Classical Electrodynamics without the Lorentz Condition: Extracting Energy from the Vacuum," Physica Scripta, Vol. 61, 2000, p. 513 - 517.
I have more to say, but this is probably already too long.
Larry Brown
Your Eyes and Ears in SW Oregon
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