Here is what the acolytes of solar power don't want you to know...

self | July 15, 2003 | Boot Hill

[biblewonk]

Not good with numbers are you.

[SierraWasp]

And you're not good with paying attention to who posted the numbers and started this thread! You are really starting to embareass yerself!!!

[newgeezer]

Not good with numbers are you.

Where windpower is concerned, he doesn't know sh*t from Shinola.

But, he's self-confident and comfortable. That's all that really matters to the true FRetards. The earth is flat, and no one's going to tell them any different. ;O)

[biblewonk]

Atleast I'm not lying to Freepers with false numbers.

[SierraWasp]

"That's all that really matters to the true FRetards."

Oh my... an attack on ALL Freepers? Oh... that mistake wasn't nice at all!!!

[SierraWasp]

You really are a Christshun, aren't you?! (note you tagline)

Hey Boot! Yew better git over here... you're under a feeble attack!!! (I know how you like swattin flies)

[newgeezer]

Oh my... an attack on ALL Freepers? Oh... that mistake wasn't nice at all!!!

I didn't attack all FReepers. Only the FRetards. They're a small but vocal subset.

Sheesh. What a maroon.

[farmfriend]

I may not know the numbers but I do know this:

If it was truely fessible out here, the Greens would be doing it. They ain't which tells me it won't work.

[SierraWasp]

"What a maroon."

Well, I can see this conversation is over. I don't have the patience to deal with name calling and personal attacks and deliberate attempts to disrupt with pure unadulterated bull splat, so you two have fun playing with yourselves and your windmills. I have more interesting things to accomplish!!! Bye.

[biblewonk]

If it was truely fessible out here, the Greens would be doing it. They ain't which tells me it won't work.

I thought the "greens" were all about trying to do things that are not "fessible". Would you call Shell and GE "Greens". They are investing heavily into wind because it is the coming thing. People love it and are sick of slash and burn energy policy.

[biblewonk]

Now there's some good news!

[SierraWasp]

("From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." -- Karl Marx)"

Aren't most tag lines sorta "words to live by?" (strange)

[SierraWasp]

I know how to "get you're goat!" (just find out where you tied it!)

[null and void]

They are investing heavily into wind because it is the coming thing. People love it and are sick of slash and burn energy policy.

Really? The Audibon Society calls them the "Cusinarts of the air" because of the high rate of bird kills. The Limosine Lib-uh-rhuls on Cape Cod don't want to have to look at them in their backyard.

I have a solar array. My neighbors don't have to hear the swish swish of mutiple swords of Damocles over their heads at all hours, nor do they have to hear gears grinding, and generators whirring, I don't cast flickering shadows on their property, and I don't chop up their TV signals.

[biblewonk]

Really?

Yes.

Interesting to hear that you have some solar panels. You must have a lot of money to spend on electricity or you are very into producing your own renewable energy.

[BOBTHENAILER]

It's hard to believe this crappola is creeping into FR like the incursion of GANG-GREEN into our society in general, but it is, sadly.

Great line. I've got something saved somwhere on wind, so I'll try to find it and be back.

[null and void]

You must have a lot of money to spend on electricity or you are very into producing your own renewable energy.

At the time I acquired them, yes. Since then I've been unemployed for the past 10 months.

When I'm back in the work force (The 28th is my target start date on a consulting gig) I'd love to become a net producer, but the State of Grayout Davis forbids my making money at it, indeed, there is a scheme to TAX solar power...

So, how much power does your personal wind system generate?

[BOBTHENAILER]

Oil and Gas vs. Wind and Solar Energy: A nationally organized advocacy effort seeks to prohibit oil and gas exploration in key prospective areas. Proponents favor using renewable energy resources instead, particularly wind and solar systems, believing they are more environmentally benign and less polluting. While increased use of home solar systems would likely be well received by communities, their cost (about $20,000 for a 2,000 sq. ft. home) is out of reach for typical homeowners. At the community level, it would be difficult to overstate the complexities of siting, permitting, legal challenges and construction problems associated with large commercial wind or solar installations.

Paul K. Driessen of Fairfax, Virginia calculates that producing 50 megawatts of electricity from photovoltaics would mean covering 1,000 acres with solar panels. To produce the same amount of electricity with wind towers (100-200 feet high) would require some 4,000 acres. By comparison, less than half an acre would be required to produce 50 megawatts of electricity from oil, or 2 to 5 acres for natural gas.

This is from a study on ANWR, FYI

[SierraWasp]

"...so I'll try to find it and be back."

Thank you. Good!

Hay Ernesto! Do you remember that article frum a few months ago about SMUD (Sacramento Municipal Utilities District) having to give up on their stupid "Solar Program?" Could you maybe find that and link it here?

Unfortunately, we must battle the frontiers of ignorance right here on our own FreeRepublic.com!!! Although, I'm sure that no matter how convincing the data are, some of these anti-matter, whistful vista folks from IA will continue to sew their wilted wishful non-thinking theories to anyone who will listen/read them.

farmfriend... why do you attract these types? (grin)

[SierraWasp]

Oooops! Dere it is!!! SLAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM............DUNK!!!