Libs stance on nuclear power?

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Apples and oranges, but I have 260 watts of solar on my boat. I can live on my boat from June to October if I want and run the fridge and all the lights solely on solar and a 400 amp hour battery bank.

The technology is there. It’s the cost that is prohibitive.
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there isn’t enough space to put as many panels as would
be needed to power 300 million people. your boat doesn’t have central air or a microwave or a washer/dryer does it?

we use a to of electricity, my wife
and kids are home in the summer, cranking the a/c and the electric pool heater. the august before i got panels, my monthly electric bill was $550, so we put panels on my entire roof ( we have no tall trees, get a ton of sun), it produces almost exactly what we use. but it killed a lot of
birds, and the panels
need to be disposed of
someday.
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[scottw]

save the birds

"Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays - "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair.
Federal wildlife investigators who visited the BrightSource Energy plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, reporting an average of one "streamer" every two minutes, are urging California officials to halt the operator's application to build a still-bigger version."

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by scottw

save the birds

"Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays - "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair.
Federal wildlife investigators who visited the BrightSource Energy plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, reporting an average of one "streamer" every two minutes, are urging California officials to halt the operator's application to build a still-bigger version."

first spring after we installed
our panels, we found 3-5 dead, cooked birds in our pool and on our deck, every day. it was beyond disgusting. the company agreed to come out and out screens up around the panels to keep them
out, not before we scraped at least 100 dead birds off the deck.

better for the environment? the birds would say no.
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