The 12 Most Creative Minds Of 2008

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At 80, the Texas oil and energy tycoon is hurtling ahead toward new frontiers. T. Boone Pickens has minted billions with BP Capital, a fossil-fuel hedge fund he founded in 1996. And his Clean Energy Fuels, a company that markets natural gas for vehicles, was listed on the NASDAQ last year. Convinced of an imminent water shortage, Pickens has amassed rights to billions of gallons per year of the Texas panhandle's aquifer and hopes to build a 300-mile pipeline to Dallas. His most ambitious move is building the world's largest wind farm, a sprawling $10 billion project. "The United States today runs on 987,000 megawatts, and the demand is going to increase 150,000 megawatts in the next 10 years. We could supply most of that with wind," he explains.

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