ssayre
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Ivanpah solar
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Windstruck
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Location: St George, UT, USA
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Well, at least they didn't build that gas guzzler on our playground. It's got that going for it. 
Born-Kites:
RaceStar+ (3.0m, 5.0m, 7.0m, 9.0m)
NasaStar-5 (2.5m, 4.0m)
NasaStar-4 (2.5m)
NasaStar-3 (3.2m)
Ozone kites:
Access (6.0m)
Flysurfer Kites:
Peak-5 (2.5m)
Buggy:
Peter Lynn BigFoot+ nose & tail; midsection VTT rail & seat kit; home-brewed AQR
NAPKA Member US2815
SWATK Member UT0003
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Randy
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Solar doesn't work at night - who would have thought it? Why can't they use something that works 24/7 - like wind power? :D
NPW Test Pilot -US99
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sand flea
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and it only cost 2.2 billion dollars!
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awindofchange
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Ah who cares.....Its only costing the government...not us..............
(Hope you can see the sarcasm)
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Morrie Williams
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I'm with you, Kent!
Morrie Williams
Westport, WA, USA
Peter Lynn Comp Buggy
Peter Lynn Peel 5m, 10m
QuadTrac 3m, 6m, 9m
SkyTiger Hi 10, Hi 15, Hi 30, Hi 60
C-Quad 2.2m, 3.2m, 4.2m
Peter Lynn - Reactor II 3.5m, 6.9m
NAPKA - US86
Blokart with 2m, 3m, 4m, 5.5m sails
NABSA - us89nw
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AudereEng
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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.
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ssayre
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"Texas - Mother Nature needs to lay off the hail balls."
TAMKO is a asphalt shingle manufacturer. Stands for Texas Arkansas Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma. States with significant amounts of hail
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