Is KGO solar powered?
On Mar 3, 10:04*am, "Geoffrey S. Mendelson"
wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
Sure does. *It could be - but I am unsure whether panels of that size
can generate the necessary wattage. *It is possible perhaps - you can
usually get up to a megawatt per acre with current technology. *Unless
they have big storage batteries, it won't keep them on the air all
night, though.
It really does not matter. Since there are such large incentives to do it,
they can put in a solar array much smaller than needed to power the station
and still eliminate the cost of electricity.
A friend of mine did it in Pennsylvania, he got 1/3 of the array paid for
by the state as a grant, 1/3 by the US government as an income tax deduction,
and the rest will be paid for in 4-5 years by the Philadelphia Electric Company
if he lets them offset their coal fired production capability by "virtual
rental" of his.
This is without ever producing a single Watt of power. Anything his system
produces will offset his electric bill, and if he produces more than he
consumes, he gets paid for it at a higher rate than he pays to consume.
Here in Israel, there is a 5:1 bounty on locally produced power.
Geoff.
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