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Elusive energy - Valley's biomass effort has potential, but lingering barriers
The Sacramento Bee ^ | April 10, 2003 | Mike Lee

Posted on 04/29/2003 3:16:41 AM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou

Edited on 04/12/2004 5:50:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Danny Locke drinks a glass of water beside the largest solar-powered irrigation pump in the world, unveiled last week on his Mendota farm west of Fresno. The AquaMax pump uses a 108-foot-long solar array to power a 36-kilowatt, 50-horsepower pump.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: energy; energylist
Also, Valley dairy farmers have installed systems to trap methane gas released by cows and convert it to energy, in the process reducing air pollution.

Now that conjurs up quite an interesting mental picture.

1 posted on 04/29/2003 3:16:42 AM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou
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To: PeaceBeWithYou
--major barriers--costs too much money to begin with and produces power at a much greater cost than any other source. I'm sure the "skilled worker"problem is minimal compared to the other two--
2 posted on 04/29/2003 3:33:39 AM PDT by rellimpank
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To: PeaceBeWithYou; newgeezer
State policies and federal incentives increasingly encourage alternative energy development. For example, Gov. Gray Davis last year signed a bill requiring the state's utilities to provide 20 percent of their electricity from wind, solar and other renewable sources by 2017. The change is expected to double the amount of alternative energy used in California in the next 15 years.

OK I know we're suppose to always hate Kalifornia but I happen to like this one. Wind power will be the alternate energy of choice once people look at the costs involved. It won't be long and Wind will be pushing out gas, hydro and nukes. I think coal is the cheapest.

3 posted on 04/29/2003 6:47:02 AM PDT by biblewonk (Spose to be a Chrissssstian)
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Wind power will be the alternate energy of choice once people look at the costs involved.

If that were true, it wouldn't require a Big Government mandate from the likes of Gray-out Davis and our Gov. Vil(e)sack.

4 posted on 04/29/2003 7:30:30 AM PDT by newgeezer (A conservative who conserves -- a true capitalist!)
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If that were true, it wouldn't require a Big Government mandate from the likes of Gray-out Davis and our Gov. Vil(e)sack.

Perhaps you believe there is no resistance on the parts of conventional power producers and grid operators to allow Wind power to muscle out their produce. Given a choice and at the same prices, sometimes even for a penny more, a hugh percent of the people will opt for renewable energy over conventional. This is a series problem if you are joe nuke or coal or union pacific or gas or enron or in some other way in bed with conventional power. The PTC and the mandates are necessary to get people to do the right thing.

5 posted on 04/29/2003 7:36:49 AM PDT by biblewonk (Spose to be a Chrissssstian)
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6 posted on 04/29/2003 8:01:57 AM PDT by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: biblewonk
Wind power will be the alternate energy of choice once people look at the costs involved. It won't be long and Wind will be pushing out gas, hydro and nukes.

Wind power has proven not to be cost effective. Besides, the wind mills kill birds. We can't have that now can we?

7 posted on 04/29/2003 8:05:16 AM PDT by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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8 posted on 04/29/2003 8:07:42 AM PDT by Free the USA (Stooge for the Rich)
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To: farmfriend
BTTT!!!!!
9 posted on 04/29/2003 8:21:51 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: biblewonk
Yeah, and it's so cool when the Eagles and Condors hit the blades. SPLAT! Talk about biomass!
10 posted on 04/29/2003 8:24:46 AM PDT by dljordan
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Wind power has proven not to be cost effective. Besides, the wind mills kill birds. We can't have that now can we?

Windpower is cost effective and I see dead birds and other critters all over the small stretch of road I bike to work every day. Cars kill way more birds than windmills and the newer bigger ones kill way fewer, especially when they are not placed in the worlds most populous raptor breeding ground.

11 posted on 04/29/2003 8:58:09 AM PDT by biblewonk (Spose to be a Chrissssstian)
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