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Solar fades as shale gas flares
Financial Post ^
| January 20, 2011 – 10:39 pm
| Peter Foster
Posted on 01/21/2011 10:52:42 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; FrPR; enough_idiocy; meyer; Normandy; Whenifhow; TenthAmendmentChampion; ...
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posted on
01/21/2011 2:12:47 PM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I don’t see where it would hurt to have the capability to self generate ~4kWh on a good day.
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posted on
01/21/2011 2:26:26 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Heh...Sundanzer 8.1 cu. ft. freezer — up to about $4 per month in very sunny areas at most for golf cart batteries (based on only 5-year battery life, can go to about 10 years for one who thinks). The freezer’s the big energy consumer in a properly built house with the best choices in appliances. Microwaves, washers, etc., don’t run long enough in a day to consume much. And no dryers, of course.
But that kind of low energy usage only happens in off-grid systems in very sunny, high altitude places, self-built by nerds like myself—not grid-tied systems for government welfare for politically correct, suburban, government-job-dependent fat cats (way too expensive and improperly designed).
...same with wind turbines. Those work in places that are downright scary with high winds, and only homebuilt monsters with large alternators on trailer hubs are tough enough to last.
Verdict: government-funded, corporate-government heads are retarded. Rejected, impoverished techies do rule.
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posted on
01/21/2011 3:09:46 PM PST
by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Shale gas supplies may last 250 years and make renewables uneconomic"
Except that your local, yocal, government-paid, multi-energy monopoly investors will fix that. Some of the retired neighbors in my rural locale will be paying about $1000 per month for heating within about a year and a quarter for propane. The shale gas drilling attempt failed, and the natural gas pipeline from over a nearby pass will be only a small part of the high cost of natural gas. ...not to mention the government defaults decades before it could possibly get here.
Most people will be in the dark, cold and out of their government jobs before the late attempts at expensive, community energy arrive.
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01/21/2011 3:18:47 PM PST
by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
To: Frantzie
Thanks to George Mitchells horizontal drilling technology which is now throughout the energy industry quite a guy, Mr. Mitchell...loved his boats, particularly an old 31 Bertram with no flybridge...he wanted a newer boat in the early 80s, and Blackfin was his choice, but Blackfin didn't have a model that didn't have a flybridge.....in short, Blackfin made a boat without a flybridge...the owner?..one George Mitchell, Galveston, Texas
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posted on
01/21/2011 4:36:30 PM PST
by
OBXWanderer
(I'm up against a hard break...)
To: familyop
Rejected, impoverished techies do rule. Yep, heating with wood this year. You have to burn a _lot_ of it. I'm benefiting from the Emerald Ash Borer. However, lots of people seem to thing that just because their tree had been dead for a couple of years that the wood does not have to be seasoned.
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posted on
01/21/2011 5:31:42 PM PST
by
glorgau
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Shucks
I guess solar cannot compete on its own.
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posted on
01/21/2011 7:45:56 PM PST
by
CPT Clay
(Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Shale gas supplies may last 250 years and make renewables uneconomic Hello!
They already ARE!!!
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posted on
01/22/2011 5:49:13 AM PST
by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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