This past Tuesday I went to a meeting on the Pickens Plan. The original idea was to use wind to replace the cng now used for electrical generation and to free the cng to power automobiles. The plan seems to have morphed by downplaying wind. Pickens now says that we have enough natural gas to power autos until the next generation is sorted out (probably plug-ins or plug-in hybrids). Right now, the cost of a cng Honda Civic is about $9.5 K greater than a petrol-powered one according to Clean Fuels Ohio. A study by Popular Mechanics about two years ago gave cng-powered cars the equivalent of $1.10/gal., so that the cng-Honda is no bargain. It appears that cng may have an application in fleets of heavy vehicles. Mayor Coleman spoke of ordering cng garbage trucks during the meeting.
The President of AEP was also there. He talked of building high-power transmission lines near energy sources to solve the problem that both wind and sun are most potent away from major population centers.
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