[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!!!

[backhoe]

Meanwhile,

Dam breaching effects questioned

[snopercod]

...the panels, which convert the sun's heat to electricity.

Is the word "radiation" still forbidden in Sacaramento? Or is Carrie a blond?

[trebb]

I wonder how much energy and money was expended to manufacture and place the panels now in use, compared to what they have produced...

[metesky]

Today, with SMUD's $1 billion annual budget and the public's interest in solar power, several board members said they are willing to support a continued solar program even it costs more.

"Why (said in best Foghorn Leghorn voice), I can see that da serious consequence of the previous planners lack of proper planning has resulted in the need for more planning than previously estimated."

"I am appalled at the shoddy quality o' de free lunches my constituents have condemned me to here at Planning Central."

[Henk]

It will install only 1.1 to 1.2 megawatts

Millions of dollars for enough power to run 1200 hair dryers. Or 12,000 light bulbs. Good grief.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

"I served the district for better than a decade with honor, and I brought honor to the district and to Sacramento.

Methinks he doth protest overmuch.

[chimera]

It had been considering increasing its current 10 megawatts of solar power by as much as 30 to 40 megawatts over the next nine years. But that goal counted on far lower costs than SMUD now faces.

40 megawatts of capacity by 2011? BFD. Rancho Seco's rated capacity was a little over 900 MW. So they've replaced about 4% of it in about three decades of trying. No wonder they're going down the tubes. We haven't even accounted for load growth during that time, and they haven't made a dent in the deficit in capacity that they threw away for no good reason.

Any more decisions like this and the district won't have to worry about capacity shortages. They won't need it, because they'll be back to a third world lifestyle and standard of living. I say let the wackos stew in their own juices, and cook their beans and rice over campfires, and freeze in the winter and die of the heat in summer.

[SSN558]

I took a couple of semesters of Solar Engineering when I was doing graduate work in Sac. You do the math and find out all of SMUDS claims were nothing more than a fraudlent sales pitch for federal money and tax credits. None the less a few students that were willing to propagate the company lie got jobs.

There is no technology that can make use of the incident sunlight in Northern California and turn it into a viable energy replacement. Basically they don't have enough annual sunlight. Solar energy doesn't become a viable consideration until you get down around Los Vegas and El Paso. Even in Los Vegas it would take solar collectors of about 25,000 square miles not including the service roads to supply all of the cities heating needs.

You can find the facts in the Building Code or an ASHRAE handbook.

[SSN558]

I took a couple of semesters of Solar Engineering when I was doing graduate work in Sac. You do the math and find out all of SMUDS claims were nothing more than a fraudlent sales pitch for federal money and tax credits. None the less a few students that were willing to propagate the company lie got jobs.

There is no technology that can make use of the incident sunlight in Northern California and turn it into a viable energy replacement. Basically they don't have enough annual sunlight. Solar energy doesn't become a viable consideration until you get down around Los Vegas and El Paso. Even in Los Vegas it would take solar collectors of about 25,000 square miles not including the service roads to supply all of the cities heating needs.

You can find the facts in the Building Code or an ASHRAE handbook.

[nightdriver]

"The showpiece of Sacramento's electric utility, an internationally known solar power program, is in shambles.

Yeah the sun went down!! ROTFLMAO!