A Green “Fantasy” Come to Life
Here, let me run a fantasy by you.
. . .
The story begins, and the hero is on the town council of a small New England town. The town’s electricity bills are killing them.
The hero decides they’ll go solar. Notwithstanding the fact that New England isn’t exactly a primo location for solar because of its environment – no place that gets less than 200 sunny days annually is, exactly – solar is trendy and popular. And hey: the town might be able to get some help if they sell it just right.
In fact, the town decides to ask for a $1.2+ million grant. Who cares if it will only save $500,000 over the life of the project? And who cares if the project will be owned by an overseas company – or if other citizens of the state will end up eating the cost?
Later: well, whaddaya know? The hero’s plan worked! They pulled it off!
The town conned the Public Utility Commission into coughing up the grant, and found some foreign company willing to bite. And they’ll save some money – by making everyone else in the state pay extra to subsidize their power!
And they’re also saving the planet from global warming to boot. Hooray!
. . .
That fantasy kinda sucks, doesn’t it? Yeah, I agree.
Except is isn’t a fantasy. The above actually happened in Peterborough, NH – a town of less than 6,300 people.
Watchdog.org has an article giving the details. It’s worth a read – unless you’re worried about your blood pressure.
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Dumbass Bullshit, Global Warming
NOFUCKINGSHIT, I used to live in Peterbough, it was a nice place until all the hippie homos moved in, they brought a lot of money but also their libbo life style, they all mostly came from MA with the uber high taxes to a state that had very low taxes and no state income tax, a state run for the most part by conservatives,now the place is run by aging hippie lib douches and from what I hear it’s a mess, LIVE FREE OR DIE Fuckers.
Lived in Amherst, NH ’til 3 years ago. The stank ass (but snobby and obnoxious) hippies have stank it up.
MA, VT, CT, and a whole host of other places are on the solar bandwagon.
Nevermind that 1MW they will produce is PEAK. Meaning about 3-4 hours a day during the summer, and almost nil the rest of the day.
But they feel good about themselves, and that’s what’s really important now, isn’t it?
“Common fucking sense”. Is now an item in the encyclopedia under “aged and old theories”.
I saw a PBS show about some fellow in Sweden, Denmark or some damn place whose town was voted the greenest place on earth or some damn thing. The interviewer was fawning over some damn greenie who claimed that his entire heating bill was zero. The damned idiot interviewer never asked the cost of the batteries, solar panels, windmill or turbine, let alone the miles of wiring, tons of insulation, special glass or any of the other green items. After all, this greenie was saving the damn planet!
If the interviewer had asked and the guy tallied it up, it would have cost more than his regular power bills for the rest of his life. No common sense with these, “we tripped over a dollar grabbing at a dime” idiots.
I can only imagine All-Points Logistics is involved…..
Typical MO for the booger-eating bedwetting touchie-feelie-do-gooder tofu-munching fleabag liberals is to move in someplace, and once they’ve rendered it unliveable with their shit, they migrate and infest other places like they’ve done with OR, WA, and CO. HAVE YOUR LOCAL LIBERALS SPAYED OR NEUTERED, ’nuff said!
You find someplace where liberals aren’t screwing things up, and I’ll move there. Of course, it’d be a waste of time, because they’ll just follow me — to see where I went and find out why I left!
That’s why you always watch your back-trail and bushwhack anyone who follows you.
“Bushwhack” has such negative connotations, RiR. I much prefer “dry gulch.”
;D
When I googled what Peterborough, NH looked like, I saw much more water than sun. Jeez, maybe they could ‘somehow’ get more power from that.
I remember seeing plenty of small to midsize hydroelectric dams in Michigan when I was a kid visiting my Grandparents there, but dams are something tree-huggers cuss about despite the zero-emissions electricity many of them generate. Liberalism is truly a mental disorder!
API: Have you no heart? Here. This is for you. Join with us in wailing for the dead tree. Sure, you think it’s firewood. So did I before I watched this. Now, I call it murder.
Is his name “Lorax”, by any chance?
Hippies see a tree, I see a source of lumber and/or pulpwood that will grow back if the land is properly maintained! 😀 I love animals too, I think THEY’RE DELICIOUS, and I believe that there is a special place for ALL of God’s creatures right next to the potatoes & gravy!
Very nice. If you want to really fry a hippy brain, go with this comment, “Yes, it’s a living planet — and it stays that way by things dying violently and being EATEN!”
That or “Animals kill and eat each other, this if we don’t eat them, they’ll eat US!” or if I’m head-gaming a vegetarian I’ll say “Plants put oxygen into the atmosphere, so if you’re eating more plants than I do, you’re taking oxygen from the lungs of innocent children!” The latter just makes them stand there with a deer-in-the-headlights expression!
Gotta remember that one. I have a couple of friends I need to drop that comment on.
I can’t wait to hear the AAR after you’ve done it!! 😀
ME ANTI-TREEHUGGER, *GRUNT!*
ANYONE who objects to harvesting timber can either use plastic toilet paper or wipe their asses with a live Spotted owl! GO, LOGGERS!!!
Out here in Washington the EPA has decreed that Hydro power is a non-renewable power source. WTF is wrong with these people?
Weeeellll…technically….if and when a water source dries up….it IS possible to run out of water. I’ve just never heard of that happening behind one of our major dams. Hopefully, it never will.
It sounds like theEPA is staffed by stank-ass treehuggers that couldn’t make it in the private sector, thus they fuck everyone else over as best they can.
Best I can tell, that’s pretty much been the case for decades PI.
Im not a fan of solar other than its a pretty cool science project.
I know a bit about it, I have installed several systems up to 5MW.
I will clear up a common misconception.
They are most efficient on a cold clear winter day, not a hot summer one…
Thermal differential on a heat exchanger?
That’s plausible for those that depend on a thermal cycle – to a point. At some point, at higher latitudes the combination of shorter day/lower sun angle (and thus more atmospheric absorption) will drop the amount of incident solar below the amount required for operation during parts of the winter.
Somewhat different story for those that operate on a direct conversion principle (e.g., solar cells), as they’re dependent only on the amount of incident solar radiation received. Those should in theory operate at peak efficiency whenever saturated with respect to incoming solar.
In either case, the amount of the day during which a solar collector can operate at all is more limited during the local winter vice the local summer. Go far enough north or south, and the limit of “not at all” is reached. (smile)
Isn’t this the part of the country that was against the off-shore wind generators because if the birds and the spoiled view?
Yep. Makes sense to me.
If I remember right, the Northeastern uber-rich trust fund blueblood liberals like the Kennedys halted the construction of wind farms off of the MA coast. To them, having to look at those is something they think is for us lower peasants, said wind farm would have marred the ocean view from their coastal mansions.
And we can’t have that.
As John “Lurch” Kerry would say it, “NO, that’s for the peasants, *SNEEEEER*.”
Offshore stuff ruins the view of what? That one horizontal line? I can never figure out why everybody pretends to like looking at that.
I’m all for INDIVIDUALS purchasing a home solar system. been researching it myself. her in Indiana it takes about 15-20 years to break even. But being independent is worth it.
I remember my NH father-in-law talking about the cost of the Seabrook nuke plant – said in his lifetime they had built over 30 dams in New Hampshire, yet had made hydro-electric power plants out of only two or three of them. He was of the opinion that had they built generating capacity into all of them, they would have spent less than the nuke plant cost and would have had more generating capacity.