Free Solar energy.... guess not

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"Free Solar Energy" – for only $2+ per kWh

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By Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser —— Bio and Archives--February 19, 2020
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Sunshine is free but solar power is not. In fact, it’s anything else but free or cheap.
As reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project (CDEP), also known as the Tonopah Solar Energy Project, has stopped operating and has been “mothballed.” The solar collectors, shown nearby, cover 300 acres.

The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project
The CDEP construction cost had largely been funded by a $735,000,000 U.S. Dept. of Energy loan guarantee in 2011. According to Wikipedia, the full construction cost was close to $1 billion. It began operating in September of 2015. 
Over the following years, until May 2019, it had produced a sum total of 420 million kilo-Watt-hour (kWh) of electricity. That was less than half of what the design claimed as anticipated output.
Now, let’s do a quick calculation to determine:
How much did one kWh of CDEP electric energy really cost?
Adjusting for the 2011-2018 loss in purchasing power of the currency by approximately 15%, then, in adjusted dollar terms, the project was funded with roughly $840 million of taxpayer money. Dividing that sum by the total energy output of 420 million kWh results in a cost of $2 per each kWh actually produced. That cost even excludes any operating expenses.
With the full construction cost and operating expenses calculated in, each kWh produced at the CDEP was in the order $2.50. In comparison, average fossil fuel type electric energy (coal, oil, gas) is less than 1/10th of that.
 

The sunshine is free but solar power is anything else but cheap and certainly not free
Despite that high cost per kWh produced, the project would probably still be “running full tilt” if the energy was really available when needed, as the design also proclaimed. Of course, that, too, was a fallacy and in the end led to its demise.
You might wonder why other, similar solar power projects, for example the Ivanpah solar power project, somewhat further south in California’s Mojave Desert, are still running? That’s a good question!
The answer may surprise you.
The Ivanpah system is producing roughly half of its “solar energy” by burning natural gas to “pre-heat” the central collector fluid. That, of course, also reduces their true output costs to a mere $1 or so per kWh.
Clearly then, the sunshine is free but solar power is anything else but cheap and certainly not free. Moreover, any solar power plants that are still operating need a full power 24/7 standby energy source as well as plenty of carbon-based fuel just to maintain regular operations.  
 



Now to the latest “Free Energy” News
As Science Daily reports on Feb. 17, 2020:
New green technology generates electricity ‘out of thin air’
University of Massachusetts at Amherst electrical engineers and microbiologists have created a device they call an ‘Air-gen’ or air-powered generator, with electrically conductive protein nanowires produced by the microbe Geobacter. The Air-gen connects electrodes to the protein nanowires in such a way that electrical current is generated from the water vapor naturally present in the atmosphere. 
Presumably, that’s another source of “free” energy. Moreover, it doesn’t even need any sunshine at all. Just some water vapor in the air and a few microbial nanothings on the ground.
One of its inventors, Derek Lovley, is reported to have stated “The new technology developed in Yao’s lab is non-polluting, renewable and low-cost. It can generate power even in areas with extremely low humidity such as the Sahara Desert. It has significant advantages over other forms of renewable energy including solar and wind.” 
You may ask “How much better can it get?”
To me, this sounds like “free-squared.” It also reminds me of the 1960s musical West Side Story hit “Everything is free in America.”
It looks like that’s still the case – supposedly.

https://canadafreepress.com/article/free...-2-per-kwh

[Mystic Wanderer]

Now to the latest “Free Energy” News
As Science Daily reports on Feb. 17, 2020:
New green technology generates electricity ‘out of thin air’
University of Massachusetts at Amherst electrical engineers and microbiologists have created a device they call an ‘Air-gen’ or air-powered generator, with electrically conductive protein nanowires produced by the microbe Geobacter. The Air-gen connects electrodes to the protein nanowires in such a way that electrical current is generated from the water vapor naturally present in the atmosphere. 
Presumably, that’s another source of “free” energy. Moreover, it doesn’t even need any sunshine at all. Just some water vapor in the air and a few microbial nanothings on the ground.
One of its inventors, Derek Lovley, is reported to have stated “The new technology developed in Yao’s lab is non-polluting, renewable and low-cost. It can generate power even in areas with extremely low humidity such as the Sahara Desert. It has significant advantages over other forms of renewable energy including solar and wind.” 
You may ask “How much better can it get?”
To me, this sounds like “free-squared.” It also reminds me of the 1960s musical West Side Story hit “Everything is free in America.”

Corey Goode and other "insiders" say they have been using this 'free energy' in the Secret Space Program' for decades.
The Alliance want to bring it out for the public, but the thing stopping it is OIL.
Oil is a major part of the economy, and if something else took it's place, a majority of jobs would be lost and it would cause an upheaval of which country has the most world power (control).

I would love to see free energy during my lifetime, but I'll settle for oil as long as POTUS keeps using it to MAGA and bring lower classes out of poverty by putting people back to work.

Guess I can wait until the sun does it's thing and I end up on a new Earth in the blink of an eye. I think we'll have free energy there; that's what they tell us.

[Ninurta]

There is no "free" energy. At a minimum, there are start-up costs and maintenance involved in the production of energy, regardless of the method used.

With that said, energy could be a LOT cheaper than it currently is. If folks had their own production facilities on a per-home basis rather than relying on huge energy companies to provide it for us, the cost per unit power would plummet. I have known people who were alive when electricity first came to these mountains and the nearby Piedmont. They say that back then, before power lines were strung, each farm had a device called a "delco" that provided their power on a per-home basis, and it was a phenomenal means of self-sufficient power production. I take it that a "delco" was some sort of generator, probably gasoline or diesel powered.

We will never see that again in America on any kind of large scale. Power companies would not allow it, even if a "free" means of energy were realized. Right now, here in the coalfields, the Socialists are attempting to convince us that we can replace coal jobs with "alternate green energy jobs". They're full of shit, of course, as the raw materials for production are not found here. raw materials would have to be shipped IN as well as back out, doubling transport costs. Then there would be the required training and the costs associated with that... the list goes on, but the upshot is that it would be more cost effective to "relocate" us to wherever the State needed us to be good little worker bees, and that is the REAL goal of all this "green energy" bullshit as it relates to us coalfield hillbillies.

As long as we are out here in the boonies, and armed, we are not being the good little proles that the Socialist State wants us to be, and they simply can't have that. Hence the push to disarm us, and the push to urbanize us by moving us to the urban kill chutes where they are moving the rest of the sheep to slowly but surely.

It's not about guns, nor is it about energy - "green", "free", or otherwise. It's all about CONTROL vs. a free people, and how to exert that control OVER a free people.

NONE of the current "social issues" is actually about that issue - ALL of them are geared towards gaining absolute control of this or that segment of the population. Every damned one of them. If it were really about "green economy", they would be, right now, paying for solar panels and associated energy storage and infrastructure in every house - or at least one of the Socialists running and crowing "green" this and that would have already floated the proposal... but that would foster independence and freedom, which a Socialist State cannot survive.


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