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This means the table would produce 31,200 W-hr per year or 31.2 KW-hr per year.  This yields an annual electricity savings of $3.12, giving the table a payback time on its investment of 3,846 years.  If one assumes a cost of capital anywhere north of 0.026% per year, then the sun will go dark before this table pays itself off.

The New Nostradamus of the North: $21,000 Wind turbine saved $4 on Reno´s energy bill

As first reported by the Reno Gazette-Journal, one turbine that cost the city
$21,000 to install saved the city $4 on its energy bill. Overall, $416,000 worth
of turbines have netted the city $2,800 in energy savings." 

Rewriting history: “treatment” of climate sceptics disappears from University of Oregon press statement | Watts Up With That?

Something is going on behind the scenes that we aren’t privy to yet.

Cut the carbon tax, say Beattie and Richo | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

On Sunday’s show I said Julia Gillard was making a terrible mistake by telling Queenslanders she hadn’t heard them the first time about her hated carbon tax.

Now former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie - positioning himself nicely as a potential draftee for the national leadership - agrees

Tom Greatrex: Reflections on a powerful argument for CCS | JunkScience.com

This poor guy thinks wasting energy and capital stuffing a valuable environmental resource down a hole is a good thing to do