time.com — The engineering company CH2M Hill is now joining hands with the U.S. Department of Energy to provide Internet solar maps of 25 American cities, using Google Earth technology to chart the precise solar potential of neighborhoods, literally rooftop by rooftop.
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jdjanskyDec 22, 2008
i am glad this piece explains that solar power is available in cities we don't commonly think of for solar.
richandlerDec 23, 2008
If this were so ideal, people would be putting up money printing machines on their homes on a daily basis. Simply put they aren't that efficient yet.
ericlindrosDec 23, 2008
First, solar energy isn't yet efficient or cheap enough to be economically or electrically viable in many areas of the country.Second, Enron was a scandal involving improper accounting, which hid massive losses from the public long enough for many executives, but almost none of the rank-and-file employees, to dump most of the company stock they owned before the real financial disclosures hit the market and took the stock to zero. It's disingenuous to try to attach an accounting scandal, which can happen to any corporation regardless of their field of operation, to the production of electricity via fossil fuels, using the visceral emotional response most people associate with "Enron" in place of sound factual information and logic.
Closed AccountDec 24, 2008
Indeed. Its self perpetuating and it comes full circle.
elgstrJan 5, 2009
CoolUsing High Tech For Conservation <a class="user" href="http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=4327">http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=4327</a>We Love Sunlight Spills. In this article, How American Energy Independence Was Won, <a class="user" href="http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3907,">http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3907,</a> the author wrote, “Voila, 4,641,748,800 megawatts a year. America’s heir and a spare to American energy independence. The Feds lease this land to U.S. Solar, Inc. (a strong, proud and patriotic USS for the stock exchange with We Love Sunlight Spills as its’ slogan) for The Nevada Solar Plant. U.S. Solar, Inc. is a red-blooded true blue American capitalist mega-corporation. U.S. Solar, Inc., through it’s Nevada division, Nevada Solar, Inc., gets the usual Federal and State tax subsides and contracts awarded to mega-corporations. A new breed of lobbyist is born, one driving electric cars with a solar panel on every roof. U.S. Solar, Inc. immediately pays it CEO $100 million a year plus perks and bonuses. U.S. Solar, Inc. hires illegals, has zero retirement and health care coverage, is non-union. It charges its’ employees for plugging in their electric cars, and each car has a solar panel on its roof. Ownership of electric cars is a condition to employment and the power generated by the solar panel on each car’s roof belongs to the U.S. Solar, Inc. electric grid. For those just not getting it :-( more ;-) tongue-in-cheek sarcasm going on here. Nevada Solar, Inc pays it CEO $50 million a year plus perks and bonuses. Within two years Nevada Solar, Inc., replicates itself in Montana and other American states, then goes global. It’s Another Great American Story. Brings a tear of patriotic pride to my eye, ‘cause boy, we really won that American War for Energy Independence. “