Ft. Collins’ 80-year ‘zero-energy’ nightmare « Green Hell Blog

The so-called FortZED district contains 7,000 commercial and residential customers. So that works out to spending $50,000 per customer.

The average electric bill in Fort Collins is $50.66 per month.

So it will take more than 82 years for FortZED to break-even.

A Good Reason to start saving for winter heating costs now

It is difficult for me to see a pattern of colder winters correlated to passing a solar minimum not repeat this time. Therefore my recommendation is to have a plan for how substantially increased heating costs will be paid.

Blogs @ The Charleston Gazette - » Inside coal industry meeting: Global warming just a scare

Specifically, he said:

It was no warmer in 2008 than it was in 1997.

OK … can’t we be done with this kind of cherry-picking of data? I mean come on. This is all too important for that.  [Via Climate Realists]

Wind Power: U.S. Wind Installations Keep On Coming - Environmental Capital - WSJ

In the second quarter, foreign wind-turbine manufacturers made the machines used in four of the five biggest wind farms. Only one big wind farm, in California, used General Electric turbines. The others were provided by Gamesa of Spain and Mitsubishi of Japan.