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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (2693)	6/21/2011 12:18:05 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 4326

So, How About Those White House Solar Panels? ..................................................... 6/21/2011 \| Katie Pavlich townhall.com Apparently, going green isn't as easy as President Obama and his Administration have talked it up to be. Remember when the President and his energy secretary promised to install solar panels on the White House roof? Another Obama Promise Broken. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced in October that after a nearly three-decade hiatus. the White House would once again have a solar water-heating system mounted on its roof, as well as photovoltaic cells. Chu said the panels would be up “by the end of this spring." Spring ended Monday, and the panels aren't there. "The Energy Department remains on the path to complete the White House solar demonstration project," Ramamoorthy Ramesh, director of the agency's SunShot Initiative and Solar Energy Technologies Program, said in a statement. The DOE's SunShot Initiative aims at shaving down the cost of solar power by 75 percent by the end of the decade. But 350.org founder and solar roof campaigner Bill McKibben didn't mince words over his disappointment in the DOE and Obama. "This was a no-brainer," he said in a statement Monday. "Republicans couldn't filibuster it, the oil companies weren't fighting it, and it still didn't get done when they said it would. "The DOE's SunShot Initiative aims at shaving down the cost of solar power by 75 percent by the end of the decade." Could it be that installing solar panels on the White House roof would have been too expensive and inefficient? And therefore it hasn't been done yet? Expensive: Yes Currently, it can cost 20 cents or more to produce a kilowatt-hour of electricity from a solar-power system, depending on where the system is located and the level of incentives offered. By contrast, generating electricity from coal or natural gas costs between 2 and 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, depending on the fuel and age of the power plant, while utility power in the U.S. averages about 8.9 cents, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Inefficient: Yes The problem with thin film is its efficiency. First Solar's panels, made from cadmium telluride, convert 10.5% of the sunlight they receive into electricity, while San Jose, Calif.-based Nanosolar Inc. makes thin-film panels from copper indium gallium selenide, or CIGS, that are 14% efficient. That's still below the 19% efficiency of silicon panels made by Sunpower Corp. of San Jose. In addition, CIGS makers have yet to figure out how to produce their more efficient thin-film panels on a large commercial scale at a competitive cost.

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (2693)	7/3/2011 3:14:58 AM
From: Don Hurst	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4326

>>" it's called....Weather "<< Ah yes, "Weather" Hey, but not too worry...those Phoenix area folks can quickly hop on the hi-speed train to Tahoe or Aspen and do some of the "normal" summer skiing this weekend to escape the 118 degree heat. Ah yes,..."Weather" And oh yes, more "Weather"...heard that the game time Giants/Tigers 7:00 PM temp in Detroit last night was 97 (felt like 104). And then there are all those floods, droughts and wild fires going on in the USA... Yup, it's called ...Weather! >>" Phoenix sets record heat for day at 118 degrees (AP) – 2 hours ago PHOENIX (AP) — About 4,000 homes in the metropolitan Phoenix area are without power — and air-conditioning — on a record-shattering day of heat in one of the nation's hottest cities. Phoenix hit a high temperature of 118 degrees on Saturday, topping a 10-year-old record of 116 degrees for the date. The National Weather Service say clouds from monsoon activity likely kept the area from reaching 120 degrees, but they say it's still the city's hottest day so far this year. The monsoon brought wind gusts that toppled power lines and knocked out electricity to homes in Phoenix suburbs. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio ordered thousands of bags of ice to the county's outdoor jails, saying inmates could have as much as they want and for any use — "<<