From a press release out of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee:
Today, the House of Representatives approved by voice vote legislation calling for the installation of a solar energy system at the Department of Energy building in Washington, D.C. The bill had been marked up and reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure last week.
H.R. 798 directs the General Services Administration to install a photovoltaic (PV) system at the Energy Department's headquarters that will convert solar energy into electricity. This project, known as Solar Net, consists of a 300 foot long, 130 foot high curtain of solar panels that convert energy from the sun into electricity.
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Palaces Posted 12:41 pm
14 Feb 2007
What the Hell is going on here?
130 x 300 = 39,000 square feet.
Times 12 watts/sq.ft. @ 13% net efficiency Polycrystal PV = 468,000 watts.
$30,000,000 / 468,000 watts = $64 per watt. This is ten times the cost of residential PV and you would expect there to be some kind of volume discount on half a Megawatt purchased at one lump sum.
Doesn't anybody know how to use a calculator any more?
http://hydrogentruth.info/page_4a3.html
The Cost o ...
in OpenOffice.org, StarOffice calc http://HydrogenTRUTH.info/spreadsheets/scenario_2b.sxc
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