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To: maggief

The Green racket in full swing.

Almost a billion dollars for 110 megawatts.


3 posted on 09/28/2011 9:43:59 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Time to move forward not to the center.)
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To: headstamp 2

110 MW is a piss ant of a power plant, read below....

let’s say you went really big, and you created a solar array somewhere in the U.S. the size of five hundred football fields (roughly a square mile). How much power would you get? The answer is roughly 150 MW, and only during the day when the sun is out. A typical power plant produces about 750 MW. So supplanting one power plant would require five square miles of panels. This is not compelling.
Supplanting our entire electrical supply with solar would require turning the entire state of South Carolina into one large solar panel. Or...maybe we should stick them out in the desert. Seems logical. Senator Feinstein has proposed paneling over 500,000 acres of the Mojave Desert. But again, we run into mundane practical problems, even before considering things like the environmental impact of covering that much land. When solar panels collect dust and grime, they lose much of their effectiveness, so they must be cleaned frequently. Where, exactly, are we going to get the water needed for cleaning in the middle of the desert? And who’s going to be out there wiping down 500,000 acres of panels?


11 posted on 09/28/2011 9:57:47 AM PDT by Recon Dad ( I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are”)
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To: headstamp 2
“The Green racket in full swing.

Almost a billion dollars for 110 megawatts”

They have other green energy subsidies and the above market power purchase agreement with NV Energy and they still can't get anyone to finance the project.

The taxpayers have to put up $737 million. But wait, there are supposedly 45 permanent jobs created. Even if this number is true (it is probably inflated) it is still $16.4 million per job just for the loan guarantee.

19 posted on 09/28/2011 10:24:25 AM PDT by detective
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