According to the Environmental Impact Statement on the construction project, adding enough solar panels to compensate for the loss in sunlight could cost up to $370,000. Typical liberal/Ithaca mentality: something doesn't work. So throw more money at it.
Ithaca is the City of Evil.
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bump
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Someone else's money at that.
3 posted on
04/20/2003 9:12:51 AM PDT by
mewzilla
To: Behind Liberal Lines
A question: why is Ithaca more evil than say, Amherst, Masschusetts, or Berkeley, California?
Regards, Ivan
4 posted on
04/20/2003 9:13:09 AM PDT by
MadIvan
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She said that when it comes to environmental concerns, there needs to be "a really long time frame," to consider the benefits.In a "really long time frame," we are all dead. High above Cayuga's waters, there's an awful smell....
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Wouldn't giant mirrors to deflect the sunlight onto the solar panels be cheaper?
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"... the panels, which
cost county taxpayers $550,000, would be almost totally obscured by shadow...."
Wasn't there also a Federal subsidy for this project, on the order of $1,000,000?
10 posted on
04/20/2003 9:21:19 AM PDT by
bcoffey
(Did you hear about the reporter who quit DEBKA for CNN and raised the IQ of both places?)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
"The library's solar array --which produces
up to less than 20 percent of the library's electricity needs..."
See? Words do mean things.
11 posted on
04/20/2003 9:26:29 AM PDT by
yankeedame
("Oh, I can take it, but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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The solution is simple, build a taller library.
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City of Silliness bump
20 posted on
04/20/2003 3:03:10 PM PDT by
Scothia
(If you pray for rain, prepare to deal with some mud.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
LOL! I love when Ithaca has something bad happen to it. :o)
22 posted on
04/21/2003 9:49:09 AM PDT by
Lazamataz
(c) Entertaining beautiful women since 1972 ! :^)
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City Of Evil bump...
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"It has an educational value on the uses of solar energy, and that educational value won't be diminished if the panels are say, 20 percent less efficient in their functioning," he said.Yeah, the residents of Ithaca would be getting an expensive education about economics, if they weren't too stupid to pay attention.
26 posted on
04/21/2003 10:02:34 AM PDT by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To fix the situation, officials could move the panels to the north side of the building. They could add more panels, or put panels on one of the new buildings and transmit the energy back to the library. ...adding enough solar panels to compensate for the loss in sunlight could cost up to $370,000.
Apparently buying additional electricity at a few cents a killowat hour, and using the savings to buy books or lower property taxes, is not under consideration.
27 posted on
04/21/2003 10:17:04 AM PDT by
Stultis
(Do I really need sarcasm tags?)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
*giggle*
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...an average of 20 to 23 percent. On some days of the year, the light lost would be even greater. Wow -- was this guy a math major?
To fix the situation, officials could move the panels to the north side of the building.
Solar panels on the north side of a building in upstate NY? They will have to hire somebody to scrape the moss off the panels.
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