Interesting read on how "clean" the solar farm is.Windstruck - 30-10-2015 at 04:33 AM
Well, at least they didn't build that gas guzzler on our playground. It's got that going for it. Randy - 30-10-2015 at 05:01 AM
Solar doesn't work at night - who would have thought it? Why can't they use something that works 24/7 - like wind power? :Dsand flea - 30-10-2015 at 05:20 AM
and it only cost 2.2 billion dollars!awindofchange - 30-10-2015 at 05:17 PM
Ah who cares.....Its only costing the government...not us..............
(Hope you can see the sarcasm)Morrie Williams - 30-10-2015 at 06:16 PM
Ah who cares.....Its only costing the government...not us..............
(Hope you can see the sarcasm)
I'm with you, Kent!AudereEng - 1-11-2015 at 02:04 PM
LOL - nothing has changed in 3.5 decades
35 years ago I figured out why the physics of a solar energy project at Texas Instruments I was working on was fundamentally screwed.
Till then for the last 4 years it was 50/50 TI and dept of energy and the burn rate had increased to the tune of 250M per year (you should scale that
for inflation...)
Once I convinced everyone (took a while since I was a student on a special college program working half days) it was not going to work TI immediately
stopped funding.
So the DOE simply funded the complete project and it expanded for at least another 2 years that I am aware of.
I graduated and left TI...
I always thought this project was a cover for the DOE as we were the ONLY project with DOE funding which did not release mega amounts of energy in a
few fractions of a second with a messy outcome...
On the practical part of the clean energy:
The liquid chemistry was so bad someone put in a report that the installers would need 2 dog tags - 1 high grade stainless - 1 Teflon
Depending on what they encountered when the glass broke - 1 would be long gone before you could identify who was involved in the accident.
And these units were supposed to be installed on every home owners roof - subsidized by tax dollars...
Guess we just needed to ban kids from having rocks, base balls or installers from dropping things and in at least Texas - Mother Nature needs to lay
off the hail balls.ssayre - 1-11-2015 at 02:12 PM
"Texas - Mother Nature needs to lay off the hail balls."
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