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AT&T’s plans to make one of the largest U.S. purchases to date of compressed natural gas vehicles made natural gas backer T. Boone Pickens giddy enough to tweet about the announcement when it came out earlier this year. But an important detail was left open: Who […] Read more »

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Green Porno, in which Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet) explains how insect sex works while wearing bug costumes, was one of the hottest web series of 2008. Well of course it was — that’s one of the top 10 premises for a web series ever, even surpassing […] Read more »

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National security for the U.S. hinges on investment and incentives for new transmission lines, a smart grid, and converting big trucks to use natural gas as fuel (one of energy magnate T. Boone Pickens’s personal favorite fuels). That was the gist of a press call today […] Read more »

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“The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” seems to be the place to be if you want to pitch your grand energy idea. Author and energy technology evangelist Thomas Friedman was the guest on Tuesday, and last night T. Boone Pickens pitched his Pickens Plan on the […] Read more »

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Pickens’ Army Now 1 Million Strong: T. Boone Pickens has marshaled a million Americans in support of the wind and natural gas-powered Pickens Plan in just three months. It’s amazing what a $58 million media campaign can buy you – Press Release. Meltdown Melting European Climate […] Read more »

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If the V-P candidates’ lukewarm responses on climate change last week failed to satisfy your hunger for a serious energy debate, perhaps an opportunity to join T. Boone Pickens in an online forum about energy issues during Tuesday’s face-off will. Pickens and Carl Pope, executive director […] Read more »

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When T. Boone Pickens has touted wind as the way of the future, he has referred to the Sweetwater Wind Farm as a great model that shows “what can happen up through the wind corridor.” The Sweetwater farm, at 585 megawatts, is one of the largest […] Read more »

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The Pickens Plan media blitz hit a glitch this week when NBC refused to air the latest television spot promoting the former oil tycoon’s natural gas and wind energy plan. The 15-second ad, entitled “Iran” and embedded below, asserts that Iran is converting its own cars […] Read more »

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Mobile live video streaming startup Qik has taken “a significant investment” from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who formerly worked together on Netscape and Loudcloud/Opsware. The two are both joining Qik’s board. This adds onto Foster City, Calif.-based Qik’s $4 million previously raised across two rounds […] Read more »

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I can’t believe I’m going to do this, but I’m going to do it. Yesterday, Dave Winer ranted about how blogs have become an ecosystem of recycled conversations about an original thought that happened long ago. Even so, I am going to talk about a post […] Read more »

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A message from Microsoft: Your knowledge and feedback are vital to our success! Microsoft’s Mobile PC User Research team is building a panel of customers who use mobile computers such as Tablet PCs in order to better understand what is important to you. This is a […] Read more »

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YOU PEOPLE ROCK!!!!! A few weeks ago I shamelessly asked you to nominate jkOnTheRun for the best independent tech blog for the First Annual TechWeb Network Best Independent Tech Blog Readers Choice Awards being run by TechWeb. TechWeb ran the nominations for a few weeks and […] Read more »