Comments for County's new solar installation gets official launch at http://lakeconews.com , comment 1 to 14 out of 14 comments http://lakeconews.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:54:50 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7427/919/#comment-10793 I asked specifically about the cost of the project and never got a straight answer, so as far as the comment attributed to the other publication, I can't even begin to guess if it's correct or not. - elarson Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:19:52 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7427/919/#comment-10787 Sure it does Socolake, when you take the average savings per year over 20 years you wind up in the neighborhood of 40-60 million in savings. Even if it cost 20 million it pays for itself in less than 10 years. Just like a home installation. - jjensen Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:03:17 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7427/919/#comment-10785 The RB article says it cost 10 to 20 MillioN? Now that just doesn't make cents, and must be incorrect? - Chris McVey Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:28:04 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7427/919/#comment-10749 This little backwoods county has done many things that amaze me over the years. We were one of the first to have a Geographical information System (GIS) that was web-based, for public viewing, in the mid to late 1990's. Our parcel information has been available electronically for years. Many counties are just now investing in these technologies. I looked at several bay area county websites for parcel and GIS information and they are still using static PDF maps. The the county "Sups" and their staff, keep on doing what you're doing it's getting noticed! - socolake Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:51:11 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7427/919/#comment-10745 sandbox have you served? You have to factor in the wars over oil in this discussion. Helluva price tag to that. To bad that pig farm you reference didn't go the route of turning pig poop into American Made Energy. Do like the President Bust reference tho - you nailed it sister. You go ahead and wait for "God help America" the rest of us have work to do to keep your God's Green earth, well, green. And you simply must elaborate on how being energy independant has caused the mortgage meltdown. Details Tiff, details!! Inquiring minds demand to know. - Donna Christopher Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:31:06 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7427/919/#comment-10743 When are the eco-nuts going to wake up to the fact that solar energy is neither environmentally friendly nor cost effective but rather a way to line the pockets of the same idiots that brought down this economy? In Environmentalism and Government Run Amuck I take you from the pig farm to the White House to show how the so called green movement caused the mortgage meltdown. And when Congress had a worse approval than President Bust, the eco-nuts voted them back in. God help America. - Tiffany Montano Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:40:13 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7427/919/#comment-10742 There could be no better investment in America than to invest in America becoming energy independent! We need to utilize everything in out power to reduce our dependence on foreign oil including using our own natural resources. Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. The high cost of fuel this past year seriously damaged our economy and society. The cost of fuel effects every facet of consumer goods from production to shipping costs. After a brief reprieve gas is inching back up. OPEC will continue to cut production until they achieve their desired 80-100. per barrel. If all gasoline cars, trucks, and SUV's instead had plug-in electric drive trains, the amount of electricity needed to replace gasoline is about equal to the estimated wind energy potential of the state of North Dakota. There is a really good new book out by Jeff Wilson called The Manhattan Project of 2009 Energy Independence Now. http://www.themanhattanprojectof2009 - beyondgreen Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:37:25 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7427/919/#comment-10741 Beeter red than dead, and I never met a bunch of sillier people than the poor republicans of Lake County. Anti labor, unless they make money for it, anti governement unless you want to ban abortion or teach creationism in schools, and worshipers of that classic Reagan voodoo economics that got us where we are today. Great story, gives you a feeling that we can do it, eventually - Darwinism to the rescue. Huh? - CobbMt Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:22:06 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7427/919/#comment-10738 no offense, but for Lake County to come in sitting as the largest solar public installation in California and 3rd in the Western US..... Denise, I love you!! And, I too read the Republican Women's gathering with guest speaker talking about her new book, that shares with us all the "shocking connection between the green movement and the communist movement"...I was laughing so hard I pissed in my pants!!! - lenny Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:27:30 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7427/919/#comment-10737 I support our BOS having the vision to work with SunPower Corp on this solar project. Making Lake County home to the largest public solar power installation in California is not only energy and money smart, but a great marketing tool for tourism. Elizabeth, thanks for a great article; and to our Board for "positively" putting Lake County on the map. - annaraven4 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:17:27 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7427/919/#comment-10735 Let's be careful about those Republicans, they've decided they are insurgents like the Taliban. Just ask Pete Sessions. Perhaps a rendition is in order to prevent them from sabotaging the sun. 8) - John Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:10:05 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7427/919/#comment-10734 many thanks to everyone who made this possible. - Grace OMalley Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:50:14 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7427/919/#comment-10733 awesome! - Caitlin Andrus Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:49:20 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7427/919/#comment-10731 communists:o at least according the speaker at this weekends Republican award ceremony's guest speaker. Yup, according to Penny Lunt, local repub publicist their guest speaker will tell you all about "...the staggering number of shocking connections between the Green movemont (no, I do not know what on movemont is) and the Communist movement." Is this why our new Supe was not present? Didn't want to catch the ol' commie cooties?;) Stay classy pubbies! - Donna Christopher Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:06:56 +0100