keithfeather

Market to Shine on Solar Industry Through 2011

Uh oh, I just checked the FPL specs for their big projects just completed. It looks like the connected cost is actually over $7.00 per watt! I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! That means that after you add up all the CO2 released into the atmosphere from the production of the cells, the construction of the plant, the allocated construction of all the equipment used, mining, transportation etc, that a PV plant will release 300 tons of CO2 per connected kw, and reduce emissions by 2 tons per yer per kw, so the cells will have to operate without maintenance for over 150 years just to break even! Heavens no! I am shocked!

Market to Shine on Solar Industry Through 2011

If you can connect 1kw of solar capacity to the grid for $1.00, the overall balance is this:

CO2 generated to produce all the energy to install 1kw: 75 tons
CO2 avoided per year based on 300days, 8 hours, 75% output: 3 tons

So to break even at $1 per kw connected to the grid will only take 25 years to break even on the CO2 balance.

Cap and Trade Would Sink the U.S. Economy

Jack, it's "climate change" now, not "global warming", get with the program.


On Oct 29 03:14 PM john s. gordon wrote:

> bubbette -
> maybe it is all the methane being released by the methane hydrates
> under the permafrost as the permafrost melts due to warming caused
> by CO2.
> soon the fabled northwest passage (sought since the 16th century)
> around the north of canada will be ice free due to global warming.
> boon to shipping. same with the northeast passage around the north
> of russia. icebreaker constructors better watch out - like the buggywhip
> mfrs in 1900 you are doomed.

Cap and Trade Would Sink the U.S. Economy

We need more nuclear power for the long term. We need to preserve our high carbon fuels (NG, coal, oil) for transportation fuel only. We need to permit spent fuel reprocessing in the US. We need to permit alternate fuel cycle reactors.


On Oct 29 12:08 PM ProLogic wrote:

> @ keithfeather -- We probably do need more nuclear power for the
> short run.
>
> But what will we do with all of that nuclear waste for the long run?
> This radioactive material takes thousands of years to decay, and
> the decay product remains highly toxic forever.

Cap and Trade Would Sink the U.S. Economy

Help me out...is CO2 the only gas on our "pollutant list" that is required for life to exist on this planet, or are there others as well?

At 400 ppm it's disasterous, at 200 ppm, we can't grow enough food for the people already here, and at 0 (bet there are some "caring folks" who think this would be a goal) all life ends.


On Oct 29 11:49 AM ProLogic wrote:
> with carbon pollution?

Cap and Trade Would Sink the U.S. Economy

Go back to 1979, muzzle Carter on nuclear power moratorium, transition ot 100% nuclear power and all electric power. In lieu of that, start building them now as fast as possible.


On Oct 29 11:49 AM ProLogic wrote:
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> What would cap-and-trade opponents offer as an alternative to deal
> with carbon pollution?

Cap and Trade Would Sink the U.S. Economy

A great tag line for 2012 elections. I was pushing for "send the children home", but I like your's better.


" We need to drain the swamp."

Cap and Trade Would Sink the U.S. Economy

If man were actually able to reduce atmospheric CO2 levels, and he realized that every 10% reduction in CO2 reduced crop/food production by 10%, at what particular atmospheric concentration would the world be safe from "global warming", and an acceptable number of people in the world be starving? If we got the CO2 level too low, would we institute a tax credit for adding more to the atmosphere?

Conservatism Rising

The reason more Americans consider themselves conservative is that the benchmark for liberal has swung so far left with this current administration, that all moderates and many left leaners now consider themselves conservatives, even though I suspect that their political views and values have not appreciably changed.

What the Solar Industry Wants in a Climate Change Bill

When solar and wind become a larger part of the grid, what will be the required spinning reserve of "conventional" generators? Look at Spain. Despite massive wind "capacity", reserve capacity of conventional is unchanged, and spinning reserves skyrocketed, reducing overall generating efficiency.

IMHO the industry to follow is remote load shedding, reducing/eliminating spinning reserve and reserve capacity.

What the Solar Industry Wants in a Climate Change Bill

At 400 ppm (0.04%) CO2, GHG activist's armageddon, maybe
at 350 ppm (0.035%) CO2, nirvana, maybe
at 200 ppm (0.02%) CO2, 50% reduction in food production, billiions starve,
at 0 ppm CO2 all life on planet ceases to exist.

not your average "pollutant".

World Recovery Is in the Hands of OPEC

Rokjok must be right, this article has to be tongue in cheek. Ultimately, davidbdc has to be correct, too. I have come to the conclusion, however, that our government scientific minds were trained in liberal arts.

GE to Participate in World’s Biggest Carbon Capture Project

The "40,000 foot view", storing CO2 in any form is begging for a future catastrophic release, whether from earthquake or any geologic movement. Actually securing the storage area for even one years CO2 emissions from power plants in the world is the equivelent of 24 million railcars! If that amount of CO2 were suddenly released, the death toll would eclipse world wars. And, in reality, the volume required for any form of CO2 storage would be far greater than that noted above. Stockpiling CO2 and withholding it from photosynthesis could be the most self destructive activity man has yet to pursue.

GE to Participate in World’s Biggest Carbon Capture Project

For 100,000 kwh of electrical production, a nuclear plant produces 1 lb. of waste, which should be reprocessed into fuel. For the equivalent electrical production, coal would produce 400,000 lbs of CO2, and natural gas about 200,000 lbs, which some think should be concentrated and stored forever. 1 lb of radwaste or the equivalent of 4 tanker cars full of liquid CO2. If each is to be "sequestered" forever, how can CO2 sequestering ever be justified?

Buyer's Market Intensifies as Florida Struggles with Mounting Foreclosures

Issues may be that typical Florida residential land is still over $500K an acre, property taxes are 3% of real value, and the majority of homes up for sale are second homes.