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To: Road Walker who wrote (365014)	1/2/2008 5:44:47 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571408

JF, > North America’s Largest Solar-Electric Plant Switched On Time to do the math again. The power output of the solar plant is 14 MW. Let's assume this is the average power output instead of the maximum (a very generous assumption indeed, given that average power is almost never advertised when solar panels are sold because it's impossible to estimate the variations in daylight). Nelis AFB agreed to buy the power at 2.2 cents/kWh for 20 years. For a 14 MW plant, that amounts to $308/hr, or $54.0 million over 20 years. What was the cost of constructing the plant? $100 million. I read the comments which followed the article and it seems a lot of other readers picked up on that discrepancy as well. Tenchusatsu

To: Road Walker who wrote (365014)	1/2/2008 6:25:28 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571408

NBC News has been doing specials for the past two weeks on companies working to conserve energy. I finally caught one last nite......Copper Kettle potato chips. In a new plant in Wisconsin they have incorporated the following: have wind turbines attached to the building to generate some of the power they need; recycle the water; *Recycle the oil used to cook the chips as biodiesel; I can't remember how much money they are saving but its considerable. It was an impressive plant.