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In July I wrote this short blurb about the solar project in Yosemite…
Just your average government project!
- 2800 Solar panels
- Producing 12% of Yosemite’s electricity
- Saving $50,000.00 per year
- Cost $5.8 million in stimulus
And you wonder why the federal government is out of money and needs more debt! It will only take 116 years to recover the expense in savings. What is the life of a solar panel?
Could this kind of genius calculation explain the debt crisis?
What is the best is our government, the EPA, is promoting this project on the local news!
And now today in the local paper is an article called, “Santa Rita Jail gets greener through own grid…”by Robert Jordan.
So the salient parts of this article are these…
The solar “grid” cost $11.7 million to build. The funding came from a Department of Energy grant of $6.9 million, $2 million from the California Energy Commission, and $2.5 million in political extortion, oops I mean a grant from PG&E.
And do you know what this phenomenal project will deliver in annual savings? At least $100,000 per year is the way they put it. Now $11.7 million, divided by $100,000 equals — I better get out my calculator because this is obviously higher math — Oh yeah… it will take 117 years for the payback for this expense…
It is amazing how much you can spend for the good of the world when it is not your money!
Does anyone need to say any more about this foolishness?
(Tom Loker served as the Chief Operating Officer of Ramsell Holding Corporation. Prior to joining Ramsell, Mr. Loker was the founder and senior partner of Wild Tiger Holding Company and Thomas Loker Consulting. Visit his website at www.loker.com and his blog at tloker.wordpress.com.)
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Having worked for PG&E I can attest to what Mr. Loker is saying and the life of the solar panels will add to the expense several times so you can add many years on to the length of time before any payback (if ever) occurs. Like windmills, which are constantly breaking down, they are not the answer to our energy problems. The windmills kill a lot of birds every year, some are endangered species, but that’s okay in the interest of “green” technology and yet as in Oroville and other California communities they can hold up building new Walmarts for five years using frivolous lawsuits envolving the Environmental Protection Act filed by a lawyer on behalf of nameless litigants.
So this project being built it is to start saving money in ~ 117 years. So if built in 2012 the benefit of building the project will be felt in year 2129!
It’s so obvious these people never went to school. They seem to think $100k is bigger than $11.7 million. They nust have been playing hookey the day they were teaching the difference.
But again it’s the typical way the Socialist/Liberals think. I sure hope the idea of spliting the State Of California is still alive. The way the Northerners think, wow , I guess they think like this: “wipe your butt before you poop., then you won’t have to do it when your done”
Makes sense doen’t it, makes you wonder how they survived this long.
Wild Bill: I think the split really needs to follow the San Andreas fault line. The Libtard Kingdom of Granola is the LA basin, up the coast to SF of Oz to Marin and on along the coastal ranges where all the Eco-Friends have settled and despoiled the beautiful mountains as they get close to Nature with their fully modern homes. Not to many subterranean homes along the coast. Even if there were, just think of the disruption of the habitat if Bill Gates $54M home was built below ground level. He would have needed an open pit mine type excavation just to open up a big enough hole. Wouldn’t kill any trees though. Amazing how he and Melissa had no problems getting the “Right” permits to tear up the precious habitat?
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Thomas W. Loker, you said it for me and need no calculator to do the math…it is obvious. Well, by the time the grid is paid off by saving all that money I will be dead so I feel sorry for the people coming behind me and still there are lots of people whom believe Obama is great and will vote again for him and might even get re-elected. Where the brains have gone?
So the 117 year payback means? Current estimated life span of currently produced panels: 20~30 years for a charitable average of 25 years (wishful thinking). So the remaining 92 years are for the greater glory of the Libtard class’s need to redistribute other people’s wealth. It is a given that the socially driven are never impacted through their protected trust funds located in off-shore accounts.
The really scary thing (if I was into Global Alarming) is the amount of CO2 that is released to make these same said panels and to provide the kind of electricity that has been promised.
Note the following extract from Low-Tech Magazine, 2008:
“In the best case scenario, one square meter of solar cells carries a burden of 75 kilograms of CO2. In the worst case scenario, that becomes 314 kilograms of CO2. With a solar insolation of 1,700 kWh/m²/yr an average household needs 8 to 10 square meters of solar panels, with a solar insolation of 900 kWh/m²/yr this becomes 16 to 20 square meters. Which means that the total CO2 debt of a solar installation is 600 to 3,140 kilograms of CO2 in sunny places, and 1,200 to 6,280 kilograms of CO2 in less sunny regions. These numbers equate to 2 to 20 flights Brussels-Lissabon (up and down, per passenger) – source CO2 emissions Boeing 747.”
Solar power is a grand scheme of income redistribution and nothing more. I am still trying to find out if the solar farm at the intersection of CA 395 & 54 is still in operation; probably not since it is 30+ years old. This will be my next quest through Google Earth to get a picture.
Amortized at $100,000/year. It will pay for itself in savings in 117 years. Think those panels will last that long?? I don’t.
Neither do I. What a farce!!
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