Indy airport solar array?

[Degtyaryov]

It'll pay for itself eventually, there's no rush. Besides, every solar installation is energy we don't have to buy from Arabia.

 

[Hotdoger]

It'll pay for itself eventually, there's no rush. Besides, every solar installation is energy we don't have to buy from Arabia.

Didn't know Arabia provided power into our grid system. Learn something new everyday.

 

[Hotdoger]

Solar Industry Anxious Over Defective Panels


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/b...ar-powers-dark-side.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

 

[kiddchaos]

Do you enjoy building 100% fossil fuel backups for your wind and solar facilities? Build something twice so you can get more expensive power. Truly a liberal environmentalist's dream

Less dependence on foreign oil? Yeah I like that.
Diversify our energy? Yeah I like that.
Will the cost go down? It has.

I also like CNG. And the US has a lot of that.
Compressed natural gas/normal fuel hybrid car conversion = $1000.
[www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYP2ZRwq9EE] Enjoy!

Biofuel from waste and sewage? In the works:
Biofuel from Sewage | MIT Technology Review

 

[hoosierdoc]

How on earth does this solar array make us less dependent on foreign oil? Diverse energy: then why solar? Go nuclear. The cost going down for a more expensive alternative still means it doesn't make sense.

 

[CathyInBlue]

We need to go thorium, which would slash costs so far that solar and wind would once again become niche products, but it would free up the capital required for the labs to make them truly competitive in the future. Any power generation that a thorium power plant doesn't have to do is saved thorium fuel, longer life to the plant as a whole, and increased safety margins. As such, I would like to see a thorium/RE alliance that allows thorium plants to operate at 50% of capacity because the other 50% is made up of mostly (25%+ REs) and the rest traditional fossil fuel generation for diversity and safety. If the entire rest of the nation's power generation capacity failed, the thorium plants could immediately (within minutes) be ramped up to provide 100% of the nation's electricity needs.

This is, of course, all contingent on the economics of thorium extraction and thorium power plant production and maintenance vs the economics of rare earths extraction, refining, and solar panel production, installation, and maintenance. I honestly think thorium could render all REsl obsolete for the foreseeable remainder of the 3rd millennium.

 

[Degtyaryov]

Didn't know Arabia provided power into our grid system. Learn something new everyday.

Where do you think we get most of our oil from?

 

[IndyDave1776]

Considering Indiana's air quality, I think this is a great idea.

Oh, and we're not saving the earth. We're saving ourselves, the earth will be just fine.

And what, pray tell, is wrong with Indiana's air quality? Be specific. Pay attention to sources. Know which metrics are being used.

I am going to have to go with Mad Macs on this one. After moving to the Indianapolis area, the air quality was bad enough it took me 3 years of acclimating to quit having spontaneous fits of dry heaves in addition to general breathing problems I did not have anywhere else in the state.

 

[Hotdoger]

Where do you think we get most of our oil from?

What supplies power for the national grid?

 

[IndyDave1776]

What supplies power for the national grid?

Most any Kentuckian would tell you that coal keeps the lights on. I would guess that most West Virginians would concur.

 

[Hotdoger]

Most any Kentuckian would tell you that coal keeps the lights on. I would guess that most West Virginians would concur.

The amount of Arabian oil that keeps the lights on is what .000001%?

How the "Arabia oil' idea is entered into a thread about solar powered electricity is a little disconcerting.

 

[danielocean03]

Funny, I noticed that solar array in Indy flying in this morning and I was immediately curious as to why it was there and who paid for it.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Went by there this morning. Probably cranking out the milliwatts like mad!

 

[Oresti]

Whole lot of liberal feel-good buzz words in that press release.

 

[Oresti]

Where do you think we get most of our oil from?

Canada and Latin America according to this article: Where Does America Get Oil? You May Be Surprised : NPR