Hmm.. If they got federal dollars, I'm against it.
I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something. - Rodney Booker, Job Fair attendee.
I'm an unmarried, dependentless male homeowner. I don't get much back. And I don't pretend 700 million dollars is a lot of money when we've already accumulated 14+ trillion dollars in debt. old people, children, fat citizens and war are expensive, green energy isn't. and does anyone actually know who's paying what on this project?Jay wrote:
Glad to see you feel that $700M is nothing though. Guess you're one of the lucky majority that receives more than he gives when filing taxes.
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I just mean the space:power ration is way out of whack compared to say nuclear.Jay wrote:
A few miles of Arizona desert won't be missed But yes, it is a giant waste of space as well. Why did the Aussies reject it? Could it be that they're better with money than us and don't have a government that spends frivolously? Nah. I could build a dung burning generator, slap a green label on it, and idiots in California would hail me as a genius savior. Oh wait, they hate anything with an open flame. Back to the drawing board I goStimey wrote:
and space
But people are all tinfoil hat about that kinda stuff
It's an Australian company, They're spending their money, in the US and potentially using US contractors. Whats the big deal about that.
If the women don't find ya handsome. They should at least find ya handy.
they'll bring the dingos. the dingos will eat our babies.UnkleRukus wrote:
It's an Australian company, They're spending their money, in the US and potentially using US contractors. Whats the big deal about that.
What is the largest? I know NASA's VAB is the largest single story building.. and I think Boeing has the largest building by volume right now. I could be wrong. Depends on how you are measuring I guess.
Xbone Stormsurgezz
So an Australian company is spending $700 million in the US and ppl complain?UnkleRukus wrote:
It's an Australian company, They're spending their money, in the US and potentially using US contractors. Whats the big deal about that.
lol
Not really.Jaekus wrote:
So an Australian company is spending $700 million in the US and ppl complain?UnkleRukus wrote:
It's an Australian company, They're spending their money, in the US and potentially using US contractors. Whats the big deal about that.
lol
the Australian government didn't offer the same kind of incentives.
You don't like progress, we get it.Jay wrote:
Conceptually cool, but a gigantic waste of taxpayer dollars. The maintenance on that thing will be a giant pain in the ass, and expensive as fuck.
After your years of workfare in khaki are you tax positive still or negative yet?Glad to see you feel that $700M is nothing though. Guess you're one of the lucky majority that receives more than he gives when filing taxes.
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Fuck Israel
They are receiving massive tax subsidies, and I bet they're getting stimulus money as well.UnkleRukus wrote:
It's an Australian company, They're spending their money, in the US and potentially using US contractors. Whats the big deal about that.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
Should've just built another nuclear reactor for that kind of money, or a nuclear fusion research facility. Or battery research, but noo.
"hurdur nukulear is evil"
Well then you rather have coal, oil or gas burning power stations?
"hurrr they're all evil go greeen"
ok enjoy your mud hut, occasional electricity and fucking expensive elec at that (oh wait ofcourse, the gov. should subsidize green tech forever)
"hurdur nukulear is evil"
Well then you rather have coal, oil or gas burning power stations?
"hurrr they're all evil go greeen"
ok enjoy your mud hut, occasional electricity and fucking expensive elec at that (oh wait ofcourse, the gov. should subsidize green tech forever)
inane little opines
Who paid for the Hoover dam?Jay wrote:
They are receiving massive tax subsidies, and I bet they're getting stimulus money as well.UnkleRukus wrote:
It's an Australian company, They're spending their money, in the US and potentially using US contractors. Whats the big deal about that.
Fuck Israel
Wasn't that built during the Great Depression?Dilbert_X wrote:
Who paid for the Hoover dam?Jay wrote:
They are receiving massive tax subsidies, and I bet they're getting stimulus money as well.UnkleRukus wrote:
It's an Australian company, They're spending their money, in the US and potentially using US contractors. Whats the big deal about that.
If the women don't find ya handsome. They should at least find ya handy.
Au contraire ... I imagine it is very hotmenzo wrote:
cool
Wait behind the line ..............................................................
We Cali folks pay an arm and a leg for electricity. I pay on average $160 a month for electricity. This solar tower could end up being a cheaper supplement for us Cali folks.Jay wrote:
No, it's not nothing. It's going to be the gift that keeps on giving with higher energy prices for any idiot that plugs into it. Glad to see you feel that $700M is nothing though. Guess you're one of the lucky majority that receives more than he gives when filing taxes.Reciprocity wrote:
and I'm sure that whopping 700 million is all that stands between us and energy nirvana. they want to build their little mirror thing out in the desert, who fucking cares? 700 million is nothing.
And yeah, 700M is nothing, when compared with nuclear power.
I'm expecting cost overruns.
could have built about 700 million gerbil wheels
fuck solar .... gerbil wheel power is where its at
fuck solar .... gerbil wheel power is where its at
Sleep, hibernation, feed, and waste would be a logistics nightmare.SEREMAKER wrote:
could have built about 700 million gerbil wheels
fuck solar .... gerbil wheel power is where its at
Arizona has been trying to get solar companies to move/build here for awhile now.
http://www.cleanenergyauthority.com/solar-energy-news/arizona-aggressively-pursues-solar-cluster-071211/
Arizona aggressively pursues solar cluster
Amanda H. Miller
Jul 12, 2011
Bennett Curry, managing director of business attraction for the Arizona Commerce Authority, has a very full dance card at this year’s Intersolar North America convention in San Francisco.
He has 13 meetings scheduled with companies from around the globe to convince them that Arizona will be the best new home for their companies and all the jobs that go with them.
Intersolar North America started today, Tuesday, July 12, and runs through Thursday. It’s a massive coming together of the solar industry expected to draw more than 2,000 visitors and 800 exhibitors.
Arizona’s green economy has been growing in recent years, and the state is aggressively pursuing a reputation as the center of the American solar universe.
While the state is competing with some other more established solar destinations and some that are just as fast-growing, Arizona is offering businesses a little something to sweeten the deal, and so far, it’s working.
Since January of 2010, the state has brought in thousands of new green tech jobs with its Renewable Energy Tax Incentive, Curry said. About 100 new companies, ranging in sizes, have moved to the state.
The incentive offers a tax credit of 10 percent of a business’s start-up expenses involved with moving to Arizona.
“We have the sun here,” Curry said. “We have the technology, and we know how to use it.”
Those are the other reasons Curry said the initiative has been successful. An aggressive incentive program like this one makes sense in a state where solar energy seems like a natural fit for the environment, culture and people.
Among those businesses that have relocated to or greatly expanded operations in Arizona are, First Solar, which is building a new thin-film plant there that will employ more than 600 people. Rio Glass brought more than 300 jobs to its manufacturing plant, which is providing concentrating solar power technology to the new massive Solana solar plant.
Gestamp Solar, which is scheduled to open next month, is also bringing in 300 new jobs.
“We’re trying to build up a solar sector here, a cluster,” Curry said. “We want to help create jobs in Arizona, good jobs, for people who need jobs.”
He said he doesn’t expect to lure all 13 of the corporations he’s meeting with in San Francisco this week, but hopes more than half of them will take him up on his offer.
the waste would be pumped into the fields of grain that feeds them - 2 birds 1 stone
Gerbils don't hibernate, derp.Ilocano wrote:
Sleep, hibernation, feed, and waste would be a logistics nightmare.SEREMAKER wrote:
could have built about 700 million gerbil wheels
fuck solar .... gerbil wheel power is where its at
Fuck Israel
