Coming soon: Community Solar
Community Solar is a new renewable energy program that offers 100% local solar energy without having to invest in or install your own rooftop solar panels.
This program allows you to subscribe to shares in a newly constructed, local solar energy project site of your choice and receive bill credits for the energy that your shares generate from the power of the sun.
Take the next step toward a clean energy future by participating in renewable energy and helping local solar energy production take root in our communities.
Learn more about the solar installations coming soon to your community and sign up today to be one of the first to know when you can subscribe to 100% local solar energy!
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I just received this e-mail message from my local power company.
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I just got a little more information. Shares become available once the project has been built and online. It only costs $20 US per share per month and then you get a monthly credit to your power bill according to how much power your share has generated that month. They point out that summer will likely generate more power than winter.
The first of these projects will be available in a few months.
It will be interesting to see whether a share will generate more power than the cost of the share. If so, it's a far easier way for homeowners or apartment dwellers to indirectly get solar power.
The first of these projects will be available in a few months.
It will be interesting to see whether a share will generate more power than the cost of the share. If so, it's a far easier way for homeowners or apartment dwellers to indirectly get solar power.
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That does sound amazing Gordon. Certainly encourages the support of the right kind of energy. Just out of interest - they do use solar power to do all those calculations, they must do surely? In which case they should rush to help those daft bitcoin things. 
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pommystuart
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On a cost/kWh your $20 would earn more in a 1mW system than in a 100kW system when infrastructure costs are amortised.
If you are just buying a part of one panel for $20 then don't expect a big return soon but over the years I think it should work out OK.
On Climate change our beloved ABC news put this out.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-01/ ... 100319528?
More sun should = more solar power.
More sun could = more bush fires = less solar power from hazy skies.
If you are just buying a part of one panel for $20 then don't expect a big return soon but over the years I think it should work out OK.
On Climate change our beloved ABC news put this out.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-01/ ... 100319528?
More sun should = more solar power.
More sun could = more bush fires = less solar power from hazy skies.
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There are two of the solar projects currently under construction and due to be completed soon.
A 200 kW system is being installed on the roof of a high school and will have 135 shares.
A much bigger 5 MW solar array is being constructed east of the Cascades, where there is much more sun. It will have 3,400 shares.
I plan to invest in them. It will be interesting to see whether I come out ahead.
A 200 kW system is being installed on the roof of a high school and will have 135 shares.
A much bigger 5 MW solar array is being constructed east of the Cascades, where there is much more sun. It will have 3,400 shares.
I plan to invest in them. It will be interesting to see whether I come out ahead.
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Happy 231st Birthday
to the
U S Coast Guard
to the
U S Coast Guard
https://www.history.uscg.mil/research/chronology/ wrote:1790 — President George Washington signed the "Tariff Act," a bill Congress passed that had been written and submitted by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. The bill authorized Hamilton's to build ten cutters to protect the new nation's revenue (Stat. L. 145, 175). Alternately known as the system of cutters, Revenue Service, and Revenue-Marine this service would officially be named the Revenue Cutter Service (12 Stat. L., 639) in 1863. The cutters were placed under the control of the Treasury Department. This date marks the officially recognized birthday of the Coast Guard.
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Why Migraine Sufferers May Want to Eat More Fish:
A diet high in omega-3s, the fats found in fish, and low in omega-6s, found in many vegetable oils, led to fewer headaches.
"omega-6 fats have been shown to promote pain and inflammation"
Sources of omega-6 fats are corn, soybean and canola oils.
"For vegetarians, good plant sources of omega-3 fats are ground flaxseeds, chia seeds and walnuts."
A diet high in omega-3s, the fats found in fish, and low in omega-6s, found in many vegetable oils, led to fewer headaches.
"omega-6 fats have been shown to promote pain and inflammation"
Sources of omega-6 fats are corn, soybean and canola oils.
"For vegetarians, good plant sources of omega-3 fats are ground flaxseeds, chia seeds and walnuts."
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More People disappear in the Alaska Triangle than anywhere else
... Are we sure it's just nature, and not polar dragons or something?
... Are we sure it's just nature, and not polar dragons or something?
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pommystuart
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Happy Birthday Kevin from Down Under. 
(When are we going to get some Southern Hemisphere ships as I cannot afford all the travel Northward on the OW wages I am getting.)
(When are we going to get some Southern Hemisphere ships as I cannot afford all the travel Northward on the OW wages I am getting.)
