Yo Hillary

[Flash]

In 2007, Hillary said she was going to seize the "record profits" of the oil companies and put the money into a "Strategic Energy Fund that will begin to fund alternative smart energy alternatives and technologies that will begin to actually move us toward the direction of independence."

Do none of you goldfish remember all the hoopla over that?

Solyndra comes to mind...

Correction: Khalil Shalabi said was that 1,295 megawatts were priced below the Recurrent solar deal from last year, which was under 5 cents per kilowatt-hour not under 4 cents per kilowatt-hour.

A lot more cheap solar is coming for Austin, Texas.

The city's utility, Austin Energy, just released new data on developer bids for PV projects as part of a 600-megawatt procurement. The numbers show how far solar prices have come down over the last year -- and will continue to drop.

According to Khalil Shalabi, Austin Energy's vice president of resource planning, the utility received offers for 7,976 megawatts of projects after issuing a request for bids in April. Out of those bids, 1,295 megawatts of projects were priced below 4 cents per kilowatt-hour.

"The technology is getting better and the prices are decreasing with time," said Shalabi during a presentation in front of the Austin city council last week.

Shalabi displayed the chart below showing an "exponentially declining curve" for PV projects in Texas.

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"If you continue the curve, you can see that if the cost points continue along this sort of exponentially declining curve. We expect to see prices out in the future that are possibly below $20 a megawatt-hour," he said.

Cheapest Solar Ever: Austin Energy Gets 1.2 Gigawatts of Solar Bids for Less Than 4 Cents

Now that the grid scale batteries are economic, solar and wind are going to be 24/7 in a decade. And all that flapyap about one failed solar company will mean nothing. When is the last time you drove a Marmon?

When solar energy becomes more cost efficient than fossil (if ever) then the free market will drive the changeover. Until that happens then it is uneconomical for the government to force the use of solar or anything else.

It is also oppressive for the government to take money away from Americans and use for filthy subsidies to the solar industry. We saw what happen with Solyndra. The American tax payers got screwed and the Solyndra executives (who were Democrat campaign bundlers) got rich.

The government needs to stay out of the business of subsiding things that the market place does not support.

 

[Uncensored2008]

In 2007, Hillary said she was going to seize the "record profits" of the oil companies and put the money into a "Strategic Energy Fund that will begin to fund alternative smart energy alternatives and technologies that will begin to actually move us toward the direction of independence."

Do none of you goldfish remember all the hoopla over that?

So G-Tard, are you and RDerp actually the same person?

 

[deltex1]

In 2007, Hillary said she was going to seize the "record profits" of the oil companies and put the money into a "Strategic Energy Fund that will begin to fund alternative smart energy alternatives and technologies that will begin to actually move us toward the direction of independence."

Do none of you goldfish remember all the hoopla over that?

Solyndra comes to mind...

Correction: Khalil Shalabi said was that 1,295 megawatts were priced below the Recurrent solar deal from last year, which was under 5 cents per kilowatt-hour not under 4 cents per kilowatt-hour.

A lot more cheap solar is coming for Austin, Texas.

The city's utility, Austin Energy, just released new data on developer bids for PV projects as part of a 600-megawatt procurement. The numbers show how far solar prices have come down over the last year -- and will continue to drop.

According to Khalil Shalabi, Austin Energy's vice president of resource planning, the utility received offers for 7,976 megawatts of projects after issuing a request for bids in April. Out of those bids, 1,295 megawatts of projects were priced below 4 cents per kilowatt-hour.

"The technology is getting better and the prices are decreasing with time," said Shalabi during a presentation in front of the Austin city council last week.

Shalabi displayed the chart below showing an "exponentially declining curve" for PV projects in Texas.

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"If you continue the curve, you can see that if the cost points continue along this sort of exponentially declining curve. We expect to see prices out in the future that are possibly below $20 a megawatt-hour," he said.

Cheapest Solar Ever: Austin Energy Gets 1.2 Gigawatts of Solar Bids for Less Than 4 Cents

Now that the grid scale batteries are economic, solar and wind are going to be 24/7 in a decade. And all that flapyap about one failed solar company will mean nothing. When is the last time you drove a Marmon?

When solar energy becomes more cost efficient than fossil (if ever) then the free market will drive the changeover. Until that happens then it is uneconomical for the government to force the use of solar or anything else.

It is also oppressive for the government to take money away from Americans and use for filthy subsidies to the solar industry. We saw what happen with Solyndra. The American tax payers got screwed and the Solyndra executive (who were Democrat campaign bundlers) got rich.

The government needs to stay out of the business of subsiding things that the market place does not support.

But we need to set the example for the Chinese, Indians, South Americans and Muslim nations who are so keen on love kindness and clean air...even if it bankrupts us. It's the Liberal thing to do. It the way things ought to be.

 

[deltex1]

In 2007, Hillary said she was going to seize the "record profits" of the oil companies and put the money into a "Strategic Energy Fund that will begin to fund alternative smart energy alternatives and technologies that will begin to actually move us toward the direction of independence."

Do none of you goldfish remember all the hoopla over that?

So G-Tard, are you and RDerp actually the same person?

g0000 is full of malarkey.

 

[Uncensored2008]

g0000 is full of malarkey.

He's just a DNC hack, but I wonder if he and rdean are actually one and the same?

 

[Rexx Taylor]

Hillary proposes we build a 500 Million Dollar Solyndra warehouse/factory in Callyfornia