[SierraWasp]

The chickens have finally come home to roost! Superimposed socialist/EnvironMentalist anti-nuke and anti-dam ANTI-economic progress just doesn't work after all!!!

[SierraWasp]

A Nuclear wreckage Ping!!! The anti-nuke crowd scared the people of Sacramento with 3 Mile Island into decommissioning Rancho Seco. Now their solar system sucks canal water and they're soooooooo SHOCKED!!!

[MD_Willington_1976]

Thats just crazy...30 to 40 MW of solar power...from what I have seen those panels must take up a ton of land, better yet, just build fast breader reactors, that way you can use nuclear waste as fuel thus killing 2 birds with 1 stone by making more electricity and depleting the tons of nuclear waste at the same time...it's win win...but the greenies will never figure that one out

[roses of sharon]

The same thing happend in the 80's and 90's with the re-cycling rage. (Remember the liberal teachers in the public school giving forms to fill out every week, ordering this)

It failed, went bankrupt, because it was just to expensive.

The public cannot afford some of these ideas right now, I'm sure it will get better in the future with more research, BY THE PRIVATE SECTOR.

[brianl703]

Reminds me of the book "From a life in the semester of a garbage bag":

..."Our son has obvioiusly lost direction, and we didn't even notice! Sean, I want you to admit right now, for good
and all, that there is nothing wrong with the Department of energy project in your school! SACGEN works perfectly!"

[Texbob]

Anything done under communist Davis will fail, communist have always failed.

[Gumlegs]

Gee. I guess their name really iS M U D.

[PeterPrinciple]

"I served the district for better than a decade with honor, and I brought honor to the district and to Sacramento. We are at the forefront of the solar revolution," he said.

Honor would be if you made it work instead of bailing out for your own company.

[billbears]

PUBLIC SECTOR SOLAR CAN'T REPLACE PRIVATE NUCLEAR OR HYDRO POWER!

Good, now scrap it, give the local taxpayers back some of their money, and let private business do it. Still don't think it would be profitable but at least businesses would realize that instead of the constant fleecing of the taxpayer

[FairWitness]

The benefits of the solar program were double-counted in budgeting, making the program appear $1.9 million cheaper than it actually is.

Isn't this an example of what Democrats like to call "Enron style accounting"?

[nightdriver]

One thing that really distinguishes the Sacramento area is that they have gobs of solar energy given to them by the sun, too. If they can't make solar power work there, it's doubtful that it's a viable enterprise at all.

[Uncle Sausage]

Solar power, wind power, light rail, recycling. When will they ever learn? Of course, these boondoggles keep many, many political hacks well employed, so maybe they have learned all they need to know - where the keys to the public purse are kept.

[js1138]

I wouldn't mind being energy independent. But don't want my tax money being handed over to others as a free gift.

[Rockiesrider]

WHAT!? are you telling me that these smug anti-estblishment tree huggers are really corporate swindlers, who cook the books for their own profit?... "say it aint so Joe". Where's Joe Loserman on this public scandle? I'll bet Al Gore won't be claiming the invention of the solar panel anytime soon.

[sasquatch]

In the '70's it took more energy to produce
a PV panel than it could be expected to produce
in it's lifetime.
Anyone out there have more recent data??

[PMCarey]

No problem. The libs will just pass legislation repealing the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

[Andyman]

With minor modifications, your headline becomes all-inclusive:

Public Sector X Can't Replace Private Y.

True in virtually every case, as long as X and Y are somewhat related.

[WindMinstrel]

This report is patently rediculous. Solar power very well could replace private nuclear or hydro power, damnit! Of course, it'd take something like 1000 square miles of (very expensive) panels to get the same amount of energy, but hey, who cares? As long as taxes and the price of energy goes up, the world will be a better place

[snopercod]

Any freshman engineering student knows that photovoltaic energy is a good economic choice where there is no other alternative. Even in space, nuclear is better.

All this program has done is to populate Sacramento with zillions of lead-acid batteries that need to be replaced every 5 years.

I am still a believer in solar hot water systems where the climate is right. It's the only alternative energy system out there that will - under the right circumstances - pay for itself in ten or twenty years.

[1Old Pro]

WHAT? No free energy?

[chimera]

To hell with them all. They deserve their fate. Those idiots threw away over 900 MW of capacity in the Rancho Seco plant for no other reason than the whipped-up fear and hysteria of the sheeple driven by the anti-nook kooks. And in the process destroyed the lives and careers of many fine Rancho Seco employees and their families.

The kooks promised they'd replace the lost Rancho Seco capacity one household at a time, with solar panels. They lied. They failed. I say good, let them eat sunbeams, and sweat it out during the summer and freeze in the dark at night in the winter.