Philly to get major new solar panel plant…
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This can only work if taxpayers are forced to subsidize it. They may have picked Philadelphia because of its proximity to Penn State, and a faculty, now more famous than ever for people who will produce fraudulent statistics to make leftist dreams look credible.
In fact, solar power costs over a dollar per kilowatt hour. Why any sane person would prefer that to nuclear power, costing less than two cents/kwh, is beyond me. For the price of this silly project, they could have built a brand new nuclear reactor that would actually help us by cranking out clean, cheap, reliable electricity all day, and, of course, all night, for a fraction of cost.
Did you intend to say proximity to Penn State or Penn, Bill? In either case your point about nuclear power is absolutely correct. While lefty loons continue to relive TMI, everyone will go into poverty. Seniors I know are making choices, agin this year, between heat and medicines. This is shameful and depraved. Pa politicians shoukd be hanging their heads for what they have done, but I’m not waiting for that to happen, nor I suspect are you.
Your points are very well taken. It's hard for most of us to realize how much those on the left hate us. Senior citizens being forced to choose between heat and medicine, when the high costs of both could easily be reduced by nuclear energy and getting rid of medical fraud, perfectly illustrate that deep, abiding hatred they have for all of us.
From Moscow to Havana, professional leftists have enjoyed destroying joy, happiness, and people. They still do, continuing the same lies that, somehow making us poorer, "Is good for us and the planet." And, as we see from what's been exposed at Penn State, the lies they tell to justify their hatred go on and on and on.
I wonder how much this solar panel plant will be worth now that the climate alarmists have had to admit that they threw away much of the original, un-adulterated data? I'm guessing next to nothing.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA……….What a bunch of maroons.
Let's help them get a headstart on writing the For Sale ad:
"FOR SALE: One Solar Panel Plant, never used. Three plug-nickels or best offer."
the development of solar technology is still a good idea…you don't have to be an extremist to support it
Photovoltaic cells are expensive and fragile. When solar energy makes economic sense, the free-market will pursue it. It makes no economic sense, hence the need for government meddling. The electricity they produce costs MULTIPLES of that produced by conventional methods. Taxpayers…….be they Federal or State……….should not be forced to subsidize this nitwittery.
to get capital to fund research and development, this business must sell this generation of its product….this artiscle discuss no government subsidy akin to subsidizing mass transit that I can see
Lambdachi, what is the point of spending money on wind and solar when we can simply build nuclear reactors that produce constant electricity, day and night, wind or no wind, for less than 2 cents/kilowatt hour.
What is the point of making people pay far more than they need to, simply to stay warm and keep the lights on? Please, let us know. What is the point?
I do agree that nuclear is the way to go given current technologies and costs. You're right about total o&m costs (fuel and non-fuel) at most nuke plants being in the 2 cent / kwh neighborhood. One of the big problems standing in the way of new plants is the high capital cost of construction. Peco's Limerick Generating Station (2 units) came in at a total of $7 billion back in 1990. Another issue that is fast approaching a crisis is the deteriorating transmission and distribution system – the grid. It is at capacity and in need of major renovation. Of course, the NIMBY phenom is alive and well and let's not forget about the radical environmentalists who wail about mushroom clouds and meltdowns. Soon the last of the rate caps will expire and all the utilities will impose significant rate increases. Maybe then people will begin to understand why we need cost effective generation. Let's hope.
If I can have free power and no property taxes……….build it in my backyard…………PLEASE, BUILD IT IN MY BACKYARD!