Northwest's largest solar-power site about to come on line

http://www.yakima-herald.com/page/dis/290075315846184

LLENSBURG -- The sun peeked through the clouds Thursday above the Wild Horse solar power project atop Whisky Dick Mountain.

When it comes to solar energy, every little bit of sunshine counts. The project's modules, which collect the solar energy, generated 114 kilowatts Thursday morning, enough to power 92 homes for the day.

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But Garratt said solar power will not compete with but will complement wind energy. Solar modules generate more energy, not surprisingly, during the day when the sunshine peaks and when demand for electricity is higher, while wind turbines generally gather more energy at night.

If successful, the project could generate additional large-scale facilities or encourage more solar-power installations at homes and businesses, fueling the state's developing solar-power industry, Garratt said.

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The place for solar panels is on the roof of a building that needs power, not a centralized location...

"If that *is* your real name"
:rofl:

....solar power is useless and will never get us anywhere -- foam -- froth -- did I mention dangerous fossil fuels -- oh, and NUKES RAWWWKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I'm working on my impersonation of our local pro-nuke friend.

now that's a name i want soon forget! Combining both solar and wind, these folks have got it together!

Peace!

It's meaningless.

I want to know what the daily production is in Empty Beer Can Equivalents (E_BCE) which is about 4.5 empty beer cans per kilowatt hour. I've had quite enough of this vague "enough to power X homes..." nonsense.

A homeless guy digging through the garbage collecting empty cans in the park can out-produce many taxpayer subsidized home solar electric systems. Those street people you see with shopping carts stacked high with empty beverage containers are true energy heros -- they don't drive cars, and they often live in places that are not even connected to the electric grid!