Posted on 12/19/2011 6:01:03 PM PST by SmithL
Gov. Jerry Brown sees a modern day message for proponents of solar power in the story of Hanukkah. Speaking at the Capitol Menorah Lighting this morning, the Democratic governor cast the eight-day Jewish holiday, which begins tomorrow, as a good time to reflect on "the whole idea that we're running out of oil so we need a miracle."
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Ugh. Just digusting.
Jerry should have taken better care of himself when he was younger,especially his mind.
Time to recall this dingbat.
Me thinks Mr. Brown needs to come up with some miracle money to keep those solar power plants in business.
jb lights all the candles at once w/ a bic and declares it a miracle
wow...just wow
Wind Powered Menorah; LOL
California should not be allowed any oil until they bring on line all the wells they have capped.
I hope Brown was celebrating the “miracle” of Solyndra, which enriched his supporters and Obama’s. Even that would be less disgusting than what it sounds like he is saying.
“Time to recall this dingbat.”
I disagree! We need to let him and his party administer the coupe de grace to this state so that the moron voters will finally understand the error of their ways. It has to get a lot worse so that it can find it’s way back to being #1.
Sounds like Moonbeam hasn’t let up on the drink and drugs. Reality seems so elusive for him.
He got this message from the United Nations, as he has just got back from a visit with them.
Drugs.....that has to be the reason.....nobody can be that stupid and still be alive.....I’m tellin’ ya, the guys been out raking the water in his fish pond.
Drugs.....that has to be the reason.....nobody can be that stupid and still be alive.....I’m tellin’ ya, the guys been out raking the water in his fish pond.
I understand what you’re saying, although this would only be effective if the CA GOP actually allow Conservatives to run the show... then again, if we put up a Recall candidate, it’d probably end up being another execrable Socialist RINO asshat like Ah-nold (instead of someone like Tom McClintock).
Pretty well sums up liberal logic. We are unlikely to be able to petition the Almighty to provide a miracle. He gave us minds capable of solving problems through the application of imagination and hard work.
What a blasphemous twit.
Let’s see him re-cast a Moslem celebration.
The idiot should have went with a Festivus miracle, aluminum pole and everything................Just saying.
I just hope he took care not to repeat his friend Obama's gaffe of lighting all the candles on the menorah at the same time.
Solar energy is still uneconomic by a wide margin in temperate climates.
Self-certified dementia?!! Who’da thunk!!!!
“...especially his mind”
Jerry’s “mind” is long ago “wasted’....
Isn’t it a tad insensitive for a gentile politician to hijack a Jewish religious festival for political purposes?
until they can put a solar collector, the size of a sunroof, on top of my car, which will power it 95% of the time (battery for the other 5%) don't bother me with nonsense. Domestic drilling for energy would eliminate foreign reliance and just the THREAT to do so would lower oil prices by 60% overnight!!!
Sure, he can be ‘that stupid’-—remember “there is no stautue of limitatiions on stupidity”
Still “Moonbeam” after all these years.
I disagree with Moonbeam as far as policy goes, but I thought the analogy was quite clever. I doubt anyone here would be screaming blasphemy if the opposite foot was shod.
Absolutely untrue
What a moron!
What a moron!
Well, let's say you live in an ideal location in the middle of the desert. We'll make the panel a bit bigger, 1 meter by 1 meter. You will get 7 kWh per day of solar energy. Let's assume there is 25% efficiency (very optimistic considering today's technology and your panel won't be aimed at the sun). Now you have less than 2kWh of energy per day to work with.
Now let's look at gasoline, it contains 33 kWh of raw energy per gallon. The engine is about 20% efficient and 10-15% after adding drive train and other sources of friction. That means 3kWh of energy to move your car forward from each gallon.
So the equivalent energy of 2/3 gallon of gasoline is collected by parking the car in full sun for a day. So figure on a 20 mile round trip per day and that's using lots of ideal assumptions. Oh and your idea of using battery for only 5%, forget about that, it will be more like 95% from battery.
you'll notice that I pooh-poohed the entire notion and said that until and unless they can come up with a miniature collector that will provide this power, I wasn't interested at all. Someday in the distant future, such technology will probably be possible, but for the time being, I want this gov't to get the hell out of the way of people who want to drill for OIL!!
In a nutshell solar can;t do what you want, the sun is too weak. Lots of people look at solar panels on roofs and think that it would be cool to sell power to the power company andor be self sufficient. But it's a lie, solar doesn't produce enough power to run a house, those panels are being subsidiy other rate payers who are buying the solar power for full price during the day when it isn't needed and getting regular price power at night when their panels produce nothing.
While I'm at it, I might as well dump on wind power, it is also too diffuse and unreliable for most uses. An analogy to your solar car would be a wind powered car, ain't gonna happen ever.
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