[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[bikerman]

Cant wait to see the first solar powered 747 take to the sky

[Yo-Yo]

In 1961, John Kennedy challenged America to put a man on the moon in 10 years; eight years later, Neil Armstrong took mankind's giant leap.

Bzzzzzt. Wrong. John Kennedy challenged America to put a man on the moon "before the decade is out." We barely made it in July of 1969.

[mvpel]

Naugatuck is spending almost $6 million to put a solar array on the roof of its high school. Over the next 25 years (if they last that long), the panels will generate almost $2 million worth of electricity.

I think that price tag probably has more to do with bid-rigging and corruption than with the technology. Or perhaps they were due to replace the roof anyway, and the price tag includes roof reconstruction as well as the solar PV equipment.

Typical photovoltaic payoff periods are usually under 10 years these days, depending on the price of electricity. Apparently Naugatuck is a 365kW system.

[Graybeard58]

Ping to a Republican-American Editorial.

If you want on or off this list, let me know.

[DManA]

The difference is we knew exactly where we had to go to get to the moon. We have no idea where to look for an economic replacement for oil.

[#1CTYankee]

Al is insane but geothermal is a very economic way of generating power.

Link below.

http://www.yourownpower.com/Power/#Project%20Overview%20...

Estimates are 6-7 cents per Kilowatt hour.

[The Great RJ]

Imagine the results if JFK’s challenge to put a man on the moon within a decade had the caveat that we were to accomplish this using anti-gravity technology. Gore’s call for replacing all fossil fuels with “renewable and carbon free sources” in 10 years is no less far fetched.