Federal Environmental Fraud - Chapter 2
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Fraud is a poor basis for conducting public policy. An ongoing pattern of federal fraud is detrimental to formation of nuclear and environmental policies. To that end, perhaps the American public should review federal agency ‘sweet heart loans’. The facts surrounding Solyndra, a California solar panel maker represent a case en pointe.
Solar power is not, and can never become, economically viable for terrestrial, electrical grid applications. Solar voltaic is useful only for specialty, off-grid purposes. The federal government wasted taxpayer money, in a loan that was KNOWN to be bad at the ‘get-go’.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/solyndra-solar-company-fails-afte...
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/15/business/la-fi-solyndra-treasury...
Solyndra, a California solar panel maker that served as a showcase for the Obama’s effort to create jobs in clean technology; shut down, leaving taxpayers obligated for $535 million in federal loans. House Republicans and government auditors had questioned administration’s loan guarantees. Solyndra has suspended operations and is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The Treasury Department provided Solyndra’s loan, on the assurance of the Energy Department. The terms were reviewed in advance by the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Some of the biggest investors in Solyndra, were venture capital funds associated with George Kaiser, a key Obama fundraiser. Earlier this year, the Energy Department’s inspector general criticized the agency for not maintaining e-mails discussing how loan-guarantee winners were selected.
GAO auditors, who first uncovered the department’s rush to provide Solyndra a loan without completing required reviews, fear that similar defaults could happen with other loan guarantee projects that weren’t properly vetted.
Exsanguination by fraud
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Exsanguination by environmental fraud
Windmills and solar voltaic systems are useful for storage systems such as filling stock ponds and “off-grid” battery charging. They provide no economic benefit to the electrical power grid, which requires continuous and instantaneous availability.
Whirligigs are used to pick the public pocketbook, by scoundrels such as Thomas Boone Pickens.
Venture capital funds associated with George Kaiser, a key Obama fundraiser, benefit from the Solyndra federal loan guarantees.
American taxpayers and electrical power customers … only get hosed, again. The faltering and teetering, if not mortally wounded, USA economy is bled dry … again.
Proceeding to Chapter 3
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So, shall we move on to Federal Environmental Fraud - Chapter 3?
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The Dark Side
The federal environmental frauds related to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster represent a substantial departure from these earlier environmental frauds.
This time, ,many direct hazards to life, health and property have been deliberately concealed by the US Government.
US citizens exposed to mortal hazards to life and limb; deserve accurate information. This has not been the governmental behavior pattern in this instance.
The ongoing pattern of federal lies and environmental fraud is expanding. The character of the violations can be accurately described as 'going to the dark-side'.
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Right/Left Fraud
Yes, the promoters, scammers and frauds are busy today.
Whether we choose to view the fraudster billionaires (and want-to-bes) on the (political) left, such as George Soros and Al Gore, or their cheating, lying counterparts on the (political) right; FRAUD is the theme.
Political labels such as 'left/right', generally speaking, have little relevance, where the over arching objective is to defraud the public.
Fewer, so-called right-wing billionaire fraudsters are focused on environmental scams such as solar-voltaic... but, environmentalism and green are for the most part, flags of convenience for all such 'gamers'.
Bled Dry
Systemic fraud has bled Western nations dry. Environmental frauds comprise a significant portion of this exsanguination. The USA economy has been bled as dry as George Washington, by his physicians.
Photo-Voltaic shenanigans
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Within the continental USA, solar (photo-voltaic) panels provide, on average, about 6 hours electrical power per day. The provided power does not occur during peak demand periods.
Photo-voltaic power costs about 7 times as much as conventional electrical power. Photo-voltaic panels are destroyed by high wind, hail and prolonged exposure to the sun. The panels are useless, long before they could possibly pay out, by avoided fuel costs.
The inverter, which converts the DC output power to AC (household) electrical power; is expensive to purchase, operate and maintain. Batteries, to store the DC power; are large, heavy, expensive, short-lived and a significant environmental waste.
Solar voltaic is a scam, or fraud if you will, except for off-grid and specialty applications. Any politician promoting solar-voltaic for electrical grid applications is a liar, fool, ignoramus or all of the above.
The faltering USA and European economies can NOT support such frauds as solar-voltaic.
Where are your facts?
Although I honor your personal opinions, here are my personal observations.
In our rural PNW community about 90% of the power is solar grid inter-tie and solar stand alone. We have few of the problems you mention. Solar panels provide highest power output in the afternoon, which is considered peak demand providing net metering payback at 34 cents kwh. My system is both grid inter-tie and standalone. The batteries are 5 years old and I charge them at night for about 4 cents kwh for domestic power, batteries last a long time if they are maintained, the first set lasting 10 years before recycling. A complete set of new batteries cost about $650, or $65/year.
Our inverter is also 15 years old and has never ever had any problems. The solar panels are still producing 90% of the power that they produced 15 years ago when they were new. They survived last winter, the toughest in 60 years, providing reliable power through weeks of wind, rain, hail, snow and utility outages. We only had to run a generator one evening. It is surprising that the panels still produce on cloudy days, and, when there is snow on the ground, the reflectivity of the snow increases solar production about 12%.
Our great electric savings allow us to get a fantastic deal on transportation. At night I also charge an electric Ranger so I can commute 80 miles to work 4 days a week. The PU has worked fine, still fast and powerful, it's lead-cobalt batteries are 5 years old, replaced by Ford when I got it, they are expected to last for 3 more years, a new set running about $1600. We pay less than $300 a year for total household electricity and commute power including battery replacement costs.
We were very reluctant to go solar 15 years ago before we had grid power and no government incentives. The original system cost about $12,500, insignificant in the total price of our home. The solar system has paid for itself time and time again, proving itself every day of operation, without any failure, as are most of the solar installations in our community.
The Solyndra failure was market based, the panels they produced could not compete with less expensive panels produced in Japan and China.
Reality for solar-voltaic
A $650 (wholesale) battery, will not provide any significant backup electrical power time, for common household applications. Nor, using the typical Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) inverter technology will household AC voltage levels of 240:120 VAC be directly achievable.
The USCG requires an 8 day battery backup for marine safety (flashing) lights, charged with solar-voltaic panels. That legal (regulatory) minimum is NEVER sufficient to maintain batteries in a charged state, without some other form of charging power, such as a backup DC generator.
Only by enormous subsidies to manufacturers and/or consumers can solar-voltaic EVER achieve any significant market penetration in conventional home/consumer applications.
Tiny specialty applications, such as running an LED reading light for a few hours at night, can be achieved with solar-voltaic.
You're kidding ... right
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I am a degreed electrical engineer, speaking off the cuff. I have designed, built and sold more (off-grid) photo-voltaic units, inverters and batteries than most anybody.
I know power electronics, backwards and forwards. The general reader has little interest in the finer technical details.
I presently pay 8 cents/kwh for variable rate electrical power. This, in spite of the unfortunate fact, that Texas has an inordinate installed base of utterly useless wind generation equipment.
Texas, PNW, Denmark, England and all the rest would be substantially better off if, every (grid-connected) wind generator and solar-voltaic unit were immediately scrapped.
Nonetheless, it is of little interest how many bad economic and technical decisions are made in the other 49 independent laboratories that we affectionately call states. Have at it ... it is hopefully, your money. I do however hope the PNW is making a lot of very smart decisions to offset this expensive indulgence.
Green Job - Fraud
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The federal government has a spotty record, at best, for picking winners. The Solyndra loan guarantees appear to represent fraud, on their face. Crony capitalism and environmental ‘green jobs’ rhetoric led to these substandard federal loans. Due diligence procedures, were deliberately undercut; for a political fund raiser.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/15/business/la-fi-solyndra-treasury...
The Treasury Department has opened an inquiry into the role one of its units played in granting a $535-million federal loan guarantee to solar equipment maker Solyndra, which collapsed. After Solyndra filed its Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Court petition, the FBI raided its offices in Fremont, Calif., and the homes of its executives.
The Treasury inquiry is the third launched by a federal agency into how Solyndra got its federal loan guarantee. The other probes are by the Justice Department and the Energy Department's inspector general's office. Treasury is focused on the actions of its Federal Financing Bank in processing and funding the loan, said Richard K. Delmar, counsel to the Treasury Department's inspector general's office.
Crony Capitalism
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Solar voltaic is a particularly extravagent form of 'Crony Capitalism'. The billionaires make out like bandits. The public gets hosed with high installed cost, high maintenance and low reliability electrical generation. Then the public must pay for 100% instantaneously available backup generation from conventional sources. No fuel is saved.
If memory serves, it would require a solar panel area, roughly the size of New Mexico to power Los Angeles.
The environmental damage, from covering New Mexico with solar panels, would be significant.
Virtually every indigenous species of flora and fauna would die.
Oh, and the first hail storm would destroy the panels.
Fraud as far as the eye can see
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Texas has recently experienced summer and winter electrical power blackouts, caused by regulatory constraints, rather than economic, generation, transmission and/or load factors. System-wide electrical grid blackouts dramatically increase the probability of nuclear reactor failures. The rest of the country can soon expect to share in this inconvenient and dangerous experience. Unworkable solar and wind schemes, have been granted subsidies, guarantees and preferential market access; at enormous taxpayer expense.
Proven electrical power technologies, with massive available fuel supplies, such as hydrocarbon and nuclear, are being regulated out of the commercial marketplace. Clean, water sparing technologies have been punished, whilest politically favored ‘green’ frauds are moved to the front of the line.
The USA and European economies are rightfully in freefall. Systemic fraud is not a sound basis upon which to found an economic system. Sound public policy is best formulated in a reality based political system.