Comments on: Green and clean power chops electric bill by a third

By: Hate to tell you this

Hate to tell you this — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:58:38 +0000

S Schemenauer: Hate to tell you this but you’re wrong. Twice the oil? Nonsense. It takes about as much (if not more!) oil to transport and dump that plastic and then make brand-new plastic, as it does to transport and recycle it. The only difference is that the plastic is now sitting in your home being productive instead of sitting in a landfill leeching toxins into the soil and/or ground water.

Do greenies think you’re all idiots? Not all of you … just the ones who go out of their way to prove it.

By: S Schemenauer

S Schemenauer — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:42:10 +0000

Steve Limbach:

Social Benefit of using our taxes badly ? Zero.

I recently bought a copier that was 100% recycled plastic. The recycled plastic was considered socially responsible, but probably used twice the amount of oil (fuel to pickup and recycle the plastic) than it would have for virgin material.

In the end it wasted oil…. plain and simple.

By: S Schemenauer

S Schemenauer — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:36:08 +0000

E.R Wheeler:

You took the words out of my mouth. Well said.

Do the Greenie’s think we are all idiots, and don’t think we should be shown the numbers?

Give me the Facts….. and let me decide if it is worth it.

By: Steve Limbach

Steve Limbach — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:46:40 +0000

Although a corporate “bean-counter” might not see the direct cost/benefit ratio, I would suggest that there are other monetary and social benefits that, while not considered by, “what’s my bottom line?” figuring, are just as real and possibly more important.
1. What is the benefit of getting 50 kilowatts off of the grid? If enough businesses did this, what would we save in the monetary, environmental and social costs of building even 1 less coal fired electric plant?
2. What is the social benefit of a business being a “good” environmental citizen?
3. What is the research benefit of getting these types of power sites up and running so that we can get “real-life” data and improve this technology for the future ?
4. What is the cumulative effect of hundreds or thousands of these projects in reducing green house gases, which inevitably will affect the health and well being of future generations ?

Good Project,..Let’s see more !!

By: E.R. Wheeler

E.R. Wheeler — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:17:14 +0000

While I am in favor of non polluting energy sources the first criteria is that they must be economically feasible. Your story was all fluff with no meat and potatoes. As Ross Perrot would say “the devil is in the details”. What was the cost to install the 50 kilowatt system and what is its useful life span? What is the projected annual maintenance cost? The saving of only about $12,000 a year doesn’t seem to be a justifiable cost/benefit ratio.