The evaluation of T. Boone Pickens plan depends first on whether someone takes the climate crisis seriously, which is to say, on whether you look beyond a ten year horizon on water.

The T. Boone Pickens plan is to pump water from the Oglalla reservoir to Texas, use the same corridor to "unstrand" the wind resource in that area into the Texas, in the context of a broader plan to expand wind power substantially to free up NG for use by motor vehicles.

There's little to recommend the overall plan if the climate crisis is taken seriously. The first priority is to get coal-fired power taken offline, and for that we a combined program of more carbon-free or carbon-neutral power generation and substantial increases in energy efficiency.

Shifting the existing motor vehicle fleet to natural gas does nothing to shift the transport system to a more energy efficient mix of transport modes.

And if the wind power is offsetting natural gas, its not offsetting coal.

T. Boone Pickens' plan is easiest to understand if you view the most pressing problem raised by Peak Oil in terms of how to line T. Boone Pickens' pockets as opportunities in the oil industry decline with the decline in untapped oil reserves.