Comments on: RePower America Solar Energy Commercial http://solarpanelspower.net/solar-power/repower-america-solar-energy-commercial Solar Panels Can Power Your Life! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:00:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sheri http://solarpanelspower.net/solar-power/repower-america-solar-energy-commercial/comment-page-1#comment-963 Sheri Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:17:59 +0000 http://solarpanelspower.net/?p=1551#comment-963 Um, no, I'm not ready. Your "single parcel of land in the desert Southwest...a mere 96 miles long" is actually 9216 square miles of desert. Desert is NOT worthless land that it's okay to pave over with a huge power plant, particularly not a concentrating solar power plant like the example shown in the ad. The Department of Energy says CSP uses 1.6 times the water per megawatt hour as coal and 4 times the water per MWh as natural gas. Deserts are, by definition, short on water, and the rivers of the Southwest are already over-allocated to other uses. Where's that water going to come from? What I'm ready for is empowering individuals, businesses, and communities to meet their own power needs by placing PV panels and small vertical wind turbines on rooftops, utility poles, cell towers, and other structures all over America. Decentralizing our power supply may not create/sustain as many billionaires, but it will make us less vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters. Um, no, I'm not ready. Your "single parcel of land in the desert Southwest…a mere 96 miles long" is actually 9216 square miles of desert. Desert is NOT worthless land that it's okay to pave over with a huge power plant, particularly not a concentrating solar power plant like the example shown in the ad. The Department of Energy says CSP uses 1.6 times the water per megawatt hour as coal and 4 times the water per MWh as natural gas. Deserts are, by definition, short on water, and the rivers of the Southwest are already over-allocated to other uses. Where's that water going to come from?

What I'm ready for is empowering individuals, businesses, and communities to meet their own power needs by placing PV panels and small vertical wind turbines on rooftops, utility poles, cell towers, and other structures all over America. Decentralizing our power supply may not create/sustain as many billionaires, but it will make us less vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters.

]]> By: Stephen Smith http://solarpanelspower.net/solar-power/repower-america-solar-energy-commercial/comment-page-1#comment-98 Stephen Smith Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:54:27 +0000 http://solarpanelspower.net/?p=1551#comment-98 Dont forget insurance, cost to clean up damage to health and the environment from mining and other production, public subsidies, low and high costs/ risk analysis of catstropic failure, short and long term dealing with toxic waste, federal oversight including transportation and seecurity. Dont forget insurance, cost to clean up damage to health and the environment from mining and other production, public subsidies, low and high costs/ risk analysis of catstropic failure, short and long term dealing with toxic waste, federal oversight including transportation and seecurity.

]]> By: James Morgan http://solarpanelspower.net/solar-power/repower-america-solar-energy-commercial/comment-page-1#comment-87 James Morgan Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:00:09 +0000 http://solarpanelspower.net/?p=1551#comment-87 Can you furnish a comparison cost per megawatt of power generated between this solar panel system and an American BWR or PWR nuclear power plant. This comparison should include all cost involved in each type of plant from inception to retirement and dismantling and should include the cost of equipment required to connect the plant to the nearest power grid. Thank you James M. Morgan ME Can you furnish a comparison cost per megawatt of power generated between this solar panel system and an American BWR or PWR nuclear power plant. This comparison should include all cost involved in each type of plant from inception to retirement and dismantling and should include the cost of equipment required to connect the plant to the nearest power grid.
Thank you
James M. Morgan ME

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