City’s solar panel deal quietly suspended. Seems we have another solar faux pas from the city that knows how to be corrupt, Chicago. More government cronyism that just screwed the tax-payers and didn’t create those shovel-ready green jobs, either.
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Coal should be used. The emissions can be scrubbed. It is a solvable engineering problem -- not unlike the thousand of problems we (as a nation) have solved with technical and engineering leadership.
The hits keep on coming. this is one of the older ones from the 'beat the deadline for free money' bail outs.
The Tonopah Solar company in Harry Reid's Nevada, secured a $737 million loan from Obama's DOE at the end on September 2011. The project will produce a 110 megawatt power system and will employ 45 permanent workers. That works out to about $16 million per job.
One of the investment partners in this endeavor is Pacific Corporate Group (PCG). PCG's executive director is Ron Pelosi who is Nancy 's brother-in-law.
The sad part about it is that some of the green initiatives are viable if the government would quit "helping" them.
No they won't rose, "green power" will never work. A solar power plant large enough to provide electricity to the city of Providence alone would cover almost 1/4 the total land area of Rhode Island.
One nuclear power plant the size of the Palo Verde plant west of Phoenix would occupy about 4000 acres and could supply the entire state with clean electricity. Yes, we need to find alternatives to coal, natural gas and oil fired power plants, these are finite resorces we will run out of eventually. But, "green" is not the answer.
We have the uranium and we have the technology to supply electricity to to everyone in the country for hundreds of years. If the fools that keep getting elected to office would quit worrying about what the eco-freaks think and help private companies build more nuclear power plants we would be much better off.
Green Jobs are just a political reach-around.