[Cheetahcat]

Nice article.

[RC2]

I looked at solar for own home. The price was about $30,000.00. That’s if I stayed on grid. If I went off grid I would have to spend more on batteries. The way I figure it, it would take about 12.5 years for me to break even........maybe.

[truthguy]

For those of you not familiar with Tom McClintock, he is one of the really good guys in politics. Oh, that he might have been elected governor in 2003 instead of the do-fuss Arnold Schwarzenegger. CA would be in so much better shape if he were governor instead of Arnold. But alas, the idiot voters wanted a movie star for governor. It's California after all. That's what's important. It's star power and not competence. What a joke California is. I know I live here.

[GodGunsGuts]

Man he’s cool!

[marron]

Exactly.

In a project I’m familiar with, a combination of solar thermal and solar photovoltaic, they need 15,000 acres to produce not quite a thousand megawatts.

They are essentially wiping out a whole valley.

A natgas plant could produce that much on about 40 acres.

There is nothing green about a solar farm. Solar is valuable as a niche source, for small needs off grid, and as a supplemental source on roof tops. But a large scale solar farm is far more environmentally disruptive than just about anything you could think of.

[zipper]

Excellent article. Reads like a chapter from Liberty and Tyranny.

[taildragger]

If my memory is correct, Coal utilizing "Fluidized Bed Combustion" ( Coal and Limestone boiling like Lava) is @ 11 cents/KW-HR. and is clean. Without getting to into it, a former "Solar Roller" on this end, trained at the College level in some classes in it.

I to am still waiting for the "breakthrough" and that was in the Carter years when I started.....

[Finny]

I sure like Tom McLintock.

Palin-McLintock? What a ticket!!!!

[Tribune7]

The cheapest form of electricity generation is hydroelectric. It ranges from a quarter cent to 2.7 cents per kilowatt hour – average around 1.5 cents.

And California is ripping down its hydro-electric dams. How many ways can a state commit suicide?

[444Flyer]

Brilliant as usual Congressman McClintock.