Comments on: Utilities board delays decision on Neumann, waits for final report http://csbj.com/2010/10/20/utilities-board-pulls-neumann-systems-technology-from-agenda/ Thu, 23 May 2013 17:48:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: peter http://csbj.com/2010/10/20/utilities-board-pulls-neumann-systems-technology-from-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-43046 peter Thu, 21 Oct 2010 02:08:10 +0000 http://csbj.com/?p=35115#comment-43046 even 180 million in spending on “clean” coal coul be invested instead into the addition of 180 Mega watts of Solar (that would create at a subsidy or investment of 180 million usd a power generation of 3.5 cents at utility level (equal to current coal). This is possible as interest rates have an all time low so that the rest can be financed at very attractive rates.

If you would put it into wind the system size would be even bigger.

Instead we rely for close to 80% of our power production on coal which has many risks going forward from climate legislation to EPA rulings..

When now somebody says what about solar and wind when the wind does not blow or the sun does not shine..

The proposed SDS pipeline system from pueblo to colorado springs could be constructed in such way that surplus energy could be stored for the times when we need it..

what we need is creativity in our town not the old policies over and over again

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