Comments on: Sunshine On Wind, Solar Finances, Politics https://boiseguardian.com/2011/01/22/sunshine-on-wind-solar-finances-politics/ A different slant on the news. Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:22:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: dog https://boiseguardian.com/2011/01/22/sunshine-on-wind-solar-finances-politics/#comment-22105 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:22:54 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5912#comment-22105 Rod, IdaCorp would rather buy the power and re-sell it without the capital investment. Problem is they don’t like to pay for it. They have spent millions on energy conservation in private and public facilities. Brilliant idea. One time investment, tax deductable, instantly puts power on line they can sell at higher rates especially if it is residential power. (not too much demand for that now)…and no future expenditures on the initial investment.
Conservation puts power on the grid fasterand cheaper than any other power generating capital investment.

]]> By: Zippo https://boiseguardian.com/2011/01/22/sunshine-on-wind-solar-finances-politics/#comment-22096 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:41:59 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5912#comment-22096 Read more carefully Rod.

]]> By: Rod in SE Boise https://boiseguardian.com/2011/01/22/sunshine-on-wind-solar-finances-politics/#comment-22094 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:06:17 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5912#comment-22094 Zippo, if a doctor does bad work he deserves to get sued. And if the Republicans enact tort reform and I can’t sue a doctor, I will sue the Republicans.

]]> By: Zippo https://boiseguardian.com/2011/01/22/sunshine-on-wind-solar-finances-politics/#comment-22085 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:41:13 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5912#comment-22085 Don’t have a TV dog. I read alot. We agree on most points. It is about 100 per week closing. Our demand for electric will fall… but the price will rise anyway. A middle class German owns a pair of those shoes, maybe a car, and they rent. They buy a permit to walk their dog. Careful when you compair to also compair the lifestyle. A German Dr. friend has moved here so he can earn what he is worth. US Dr. that get sued a lot for bad work move to other countries that speak english and don’t get sued so much.

]]> By: Rod in SE Boise https://boiseguardian.com/2011/01/22/sunshine-on-wind-solar-finances-politics/#comment-22084 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:18:25 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5912#comment-22084 Why has it not occurred to anyone but me to ask why didn’t Idaho Power jump out ahead of all these other guys and develop big time solar and wind projects themselves?

]]> By: dog https://boiseguardian.com/2011/01/22/sunshine-on-wind-solar-finances-politics/#comment-22083 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:34:52 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5912#comment-22083 Sorry Zip, don’t buy the Fox news bites. American manufacturing is eroding because labor is cheaper in Asia and they can pollute all they want. American laws make it easy and profitable to outsource overseas. I remember Reagun extoling the virtues of outsourcing manufacturing in a speech. Germany has environmental regulations far more resrtictive than the US. They are a manufacturing powerhouse. They have unions. And …healthcare. Germany still make shoes! They like to make stuff. Americans like to buy stuff.

]]> By: Zippo https://boiseguardian.com/2011/01/22/sunshine-on-wind-solar-finances-politics/#comment-22078 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:48:12 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5912#comment-22078 dog, you are correct, but once these clowns with the carbon tax get their way that rate will go bonkers and then we will have to wait ten more years before they get a nuke online. The French use mostly nuke… the nuke we invented. Nuke cost so much because of holywood fools and their lawyers causing masive red tape. Good news, as our indusry is shipped away at a rate of 100 manufacturing plants per week, (or something really crazy like that number) our demand should begin falling again.

]]> By: dog https://boiseguardian.com/2011/01/22/sunshine-on-wind-solar-finances-politics/#comment-22074 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:58:48 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5912#comment-22074 Always remember when you pay your Idaho Power electric bill, you are paying for some of the cheapest power on the planet. Want nuclear power? Check and see what those folks get to pay per kilowatt. When the nuke plant life is over, about 30 years, tax payers get a giant expensive mess to clean up.
Too bad wind and solar aren’t a novelty, only for those stuck in a cold war era and mentality.

]]> By: Paul https://boiseguardian.com/2011/01/22/sunshine-on-wind-solar-finances-politics/#comment-22069 Sun, 23 Jan 2011 04:46:59 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5912#comment-22069 My electrical usage does not deviate on a annual comparison very much when compared to the same month last year when I review my Idaho Pwr Bill.

Wind and solar vary with ambient conditions day to day. Until we figure out how to store electrical power wind and solar are an expensve novelty.

I am very thankful that power outages here are minimal and I do not have to have a generator on standby like folks on the east coast states have in addition to the monthly electrical bills.

]]> By: Cyclops https://boiseguardian.com/2011/01/22/sunshine-on-wind-solar-finances-politics/#comment-22066 Sun, 23 Jan 2011 01:18:50 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5912#comment-22066 I don’t care if North Korea is building a plant out there. It means jobs for Boiseans. Besides, when the “poop” hits the fan, we can just “nationalize” it! (Can states do that??) No one should be surprised that this came AFTER the bond issue last November! It is SOP for the mayor in this town!

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