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March 3rd 10, 07:46 PM
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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. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel *N3OWJ/4X1GM New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation. |
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