Tony Robbins interviews T. Boone Pickens (Part 2)

Have a seat and enjoy this Q&A featuring best-selling author and entrepreneur, Tony Robbins, and the Oracle of Oil, T. Boone Pickens. These two thought leaders cover a wide range of topics pertaining to domestic and global energy issues as well as strategic opportunities in the United States today.

[@PeckSlipStudios]

Great perspective at minute 17:30 approx. Thanks for being a realist. A family of four will most definitely use a bicycle - just not to make it to their dance recital or emergency doctor appointment. Tesla's are delivered via diesel powered trucks today. Tomorrow that might be a natural gas Navistar. They are not yet drop shipped by drones. It is possible today with a diversified energy plan for the transportation system in America to consume less oil. An example is how Denver's light rail system just reduced the need for Uber/Lyft and for highway traffic for those willing to travel from Downtown to the airport. Emphasis on willing and practical. However, the price/cost is still a function of time and reliability. A citizen can solely abandon a car in America - a family can not. Technology advances prove that new options will reveal themselves in the next 5 years which will reduce our need for environmentally harmful and politically sensitive transportation fuels. Have a good 88th and for your big day sit back with a Red Bull at approx minute 52 with Lubie Love - The Movie.

[@seaplaneguy1]

What we need in a leader is someone who can do basic math and listen to someone who can solve problems. I saved Porsche's rear end when they were blowing up airbags. No engineer at Porsche knew how to solve their problem and none at my Airbag company I worked at or anywhere else...I did. I am an engineer's engineer. Not a used car salesman. I have the solution to energy. Nobody I know of does. Not Elon Musk. Not DARPA. Definitely not NASA. The x-57 is junk...for example. How to pay off national debt? Try my engine. Could save $1 trillion/year in fuel. You pay it back by using my engine...just that simple. Don't need to be that bright to figure it out. Cheap energy with my engine would put lots of money in the pockets of people which means they buy more stuff and tax revenue goes wild. Want to grow at 10%? Try my engine....humble yourself and listen to what I am saying....

[@seaplaneguy1]

Solar PV will not help because batteries are not going to be good enough for 30-40 years. My engine can use battery when or if needed. My engine with solar thermal on a house can get 80% of the NG use in a house gone and the engine can generate all the electricity.... Generate on solar for 3 cents/kw-hr. On NG...6 cents/kw-hr. That is less than 1/2 to 1/4th what electricity costs from the grid. Natural Gas can be made from many sources including solar. Life runs by NG, just ask a cow. Look, stop the government subsidy nonsense. We don't need it. The semi truck will be able to compress the gas. No need for NorthStar or any pumps. The engine systems has all that is needed to take it from 1/2 psig to 3600 psig and get 100% fills, not 80% fills like NorthStar stuff does. Any house feed will work...just need larger meters to fill faster. Can have engine in house with tank for quick fills.

[@seaplaneguy1]

Oil is going to very low and will stay there. Oil should be used for plastics only and if electric cars and trucks come to fashion what are we going to do with the gasoline? With my engine you can use NG and oil, and be 18 times better than a Tesla in costs and twice as good in energy plug to wheel.... With respects to CO2: Read this CO2 people.... Coal is 1.78 times more CO2 per BTU. So, If 1lb of CO2 comes from my car with new engine, 10.68 lbs comes from a coal based Tesla car. (2 twice mpg, x 1.77 NG vs Coal x 33% grid efficienty = 10.68) Why make over 10 times MORE CO2 using a Tesla??? From grid NG the number for CO2 is 4.44 times MORE CO2 (2 twice mph x 1/.45% turbine eff. = 4.44 ) CO2 summary: 10.7 times MORE CO2 via Coal grid. 4.4 times more CO2 via NG grid. Remember, the heating and cooling is included in engine system. Range suffers in city by 40% for a Tesla at 25-35 mph with 2 kw heating/cooling load. Take those numbers and divide by 0.6....10.7/.6= 17.8. 4.44/.6 = 7.4. So, city driving on a hot day you will make 7.4 to 17.8 times MORE CO2. So at what point will renewables on the grid beat my engine in terms of CO2? 1-1/7.4=.865...when 86.5 % of the grid is renewable and the rest is NG. Or 1-1/17.8=.944 ... when 94.4% of the grid is renewable and only only 5.6 is coal. When will that occur? No for a long long long long time...if ever. Try 200 mpg highway and 400 mpg city in 4 pass car instead of Tesla...100% brake recovery, whereas Tesla lucky to get 50%. Electricity is $5/gal for electricity and $4 for the battery...total $9/gal. You cannot get to better CO2 reduction than my engine in nearly 100 years if ever. You can have CO2 reduction in 10 years that will solve your CO2 "problem" if that is the goal. Tesla is 100 mpg e highway and 200 city...1/2 what mine will be because it is twice as heavy (battery) and twice the drag (no active drag reduction...new technology). Nobody will want that stupid electric car when they can drive for 1/18th of the fuel cost and 1/7th the CO2 (best case) or up to 1/17th of the CO2. Tesla is a CO2 monster. The question is whether some old oil guy (lots of those guys around now) is smart enough to see the writing on the wall. NG is the right fuel. It can run airplanes, but not with the volume needs with old Otto cycle engines or Diesels on NG. Batteries are too heavy. This engine allows roadable airplanes door to door. Batteries have little range and airplanes are all about range.