Thursday, September 16, 2004

Testing Image Posting Here is a test posting including an image of me Or try this one with a variation on the src address Images courtesy of my darling daughter Emily. Maybe a little vain, but at least now I know how to post an image. Yeahh!!!! 4:17:38 PM    comment [] California Proposes Solar Home Incentives. I found this on the ROCKY MOUNTAIN CLIMATE Organization news page. Here is the text of their blurb AP, August 4, 2004 - California Proposes Solar Home Incentives. "California officials are proposing that half of all new homes in the state should be running on solar energy in 10 years, spurred by $100 million in annual incentives paid for by electricity consumers....The combined solar installations would be the equivalent of 36 new, $30 million, 75 megawatt natural gas "peaker" plants used when electricity is most in demand, and would avoid pumping 50 million tons of carbon dioxide into the air from the accompanying combustion, the California EPA estimated." I wonder what the 'equivalent of 36 new, $30 million, 75 megawatt natural gas "peaker" plants' really means. Mathematically, 36 plants x $30 million per plant is approximately equal to 10 years times $100 million per year. So it is equivalent in cost. Is it also equivalent in energy production? 3:17:39 PM    comment []

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