T.Boone Pickens announced today his energy plan for the Unites States. Pickens says his plan will reduce American dependence on foreign oil by 33% because his company Mesa Power will focus on renewable energy, specifically wind power as an alternative energy source.
Wind energy is a stable supply of energy, renewable, clean and eco-friendly. Mesa Power, one of the companies Pickens owns is investing $2 billion in a multibillion-dollar plan to build a wind farm in Pampa, Texas which is being billed as the world’s largest wind farm.
The plan calls for companies to take advantage of the “wind corridor,” that stretches from the Canadian border to West Texas, harnessing energy from wind turbines built in this corridor.
T. Boone Pickens, a billionaire from Texas, thinks his plan could be implemented in 10 years with approval from Congress and private investors footing the bill.
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A group of scuba divers led by Kathleen Mitchinson who had gone missing off the coast of Indonesia were found alive and well today on an island inhabited by Komodo dragons. They were swept away by currents 20 miles away from where they were diving.
One French scuba diver said the group tried to struggle against the current for at least 9 hours, but stopped after a while in order to conserve their energy. Then they saw land in the distance. Little did the scuba diving group know that the land they saw was inhabited only by komodo dragons.
Kathleen Mitchinson, an experienced British scuba diver and dive master, was leading a group of European tourists on a dive when all five disappeared from the waters near Indonesia on Friday. British, French and Swedish scuba divers are among the missing.
The divers were in the waters of Komodo National Park, exploring this area of unspoilt coral reefs and marine life. The park is a tropical paradise and is more than 300 miles east for the nearest city, Denpasar, capital of Bali. Komodo island is famous as the exclusive natural habitat of the Komodo dragon
One of the Universal Studios backlots caught on fire early Sunday morning. The fire started in a sound stage on the Universal Studios backlot approximately 4:45 a.m.
Two helicopters, at least 200 county firefighters and studio firefighters tried to keep the blaze from spreading and completely destroying the Universal Studios film vault. Fire Inspector Darryl Jacobs says no one was injured. Jacobs estimates that at least 3 blocks of movie sets have been damaged by the fire.
The flames were shooting up more than 100 feet through the roof. Within 30 minutes one sound stage and several other buildings were gutted including the King Kong exhibit building, courthouse square from “Back to the Future, and a streetscape they use when filming NY scenes. Universal Studios is next door to the Sheraton Universal Hotel and other Universal Studios hotels but none of these hotels had to be evacuated.
