11-30-2012, 11:30 AM
Bottom line - pumping water to store electricity produced during daylight hours, negates a lot of geothermal arguments about storing solar or wind energy as demonstrated by this BILLION dollar proposal backed by some real money.
May we gain at least that much from the discussion so far - now back to micro hydro projects ..... and how solar trumps geothermal.....
May I suggest the Punaweb solar benchmark is at 1.50 a watt to purchase and 1000 watts output per hour is worth 50 cents.....
Conversion factor comes up a lot in discussions about energy - hydro may be at the top of the list if I remember right.
180 foot dam to block one end of a canyon - in a endangered arroyo toad riparian habitat...... at that - vs 'billion bucks....... is the other option...... or Geothermal when they get this far west - if they havent all ready arrived.......... McDucks and Kaiser all ready here....
May we gain at least that much from the discussion so far - now back to micro hydro projects ..... and how solar trumps geothermal.....
May I suggest the Punaweb solar benchmark is at 1.50 a watt to purchase and 1000 watts output per hour is worth 50 cents.....
Conversion factor comes up a lot in discussions about energy - hydro may be at the top of the list if I remember right.
180 foot dam to block one end of a canyon - in a endangered arroyo toad riparian habitat...... at that - vs 'billion bucks....... is the other option...... or Geothermal when they get this far west - if they havent all ready arrived.......... McDucks and Kaiser all ready here....